Maya Han
Maya Han is an artist, filmmaker, and writer and, since 2022, the cultural programmer at the New York Mycological Society where she holds a hand lens to hidden histories. Her most recent film is Black and Brown: The New My(e)cologists. www.hanprojects.net
María Sabina, mujer espíritu—with its techniques of embeddedness and observation, and long takes of unscripted events—is an ethnographic film, a genre problematic due to its origins in anthropology’s colonial gaze.
Amanda Kim’s new documentary Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV is a corrective tour-de-force, a deeply moving portrait of Paik and, for new generations and old, a much-needed introduction to this towering artist and pioneering polymath.
