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A brown station wagon is parked atop a street that overlooks a city down below; an older woman can be seen sitting in the backseat while a man stands nearby in the foreground

Against History: Robinson Devor and Charles Mudede’s ‘Suburban Fury’ Continues Their Fascination With the Glare of the Spotlight

The decades-long collaboration between Robinson Devor and Charles Mudede is marked by mining real-life stories in the borderlands of American history

In an interior room, a man with a camera films a woman, who is also holding a camera.

The Beautiful Mess of Seeing: A Reckoning With Authorship and Power in Collaborative Filmmaking

A filmmaker reflects on how Writing With Fire became a reckoning with authorship, the politics of a fixed gaze, and the unstable ground beneath

In front of a wall with "CINEGAEL" painted on it stands a father and his son, with a camera on a tripod.

The Sea Is an Archivist: ‘Atlantean’ and the Communal Cinema of Bob Quinn

Atlantean and the Communal Cinema of Bob Quinn

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