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Stranger than paradise
A Joycean conversation with the great writer and director Radu Jude
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Patrick Z. McGavin

February 2024

'The only way we fail is if we don’t make art'
A Sundance conversation with editor Ron Patane about reframing autobiographical art
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Patrick Z. McGavin
Images, or the man in the gray suit
On movie modernism, adaptation, and coming to terms with a great director's work of dread and cultural occupation
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Patrick Z. McGavin
'I find really sad things funny'
A conversation with actor and writer Laura Chinn about her directing debut, Suncoast
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Patrick Z. McGavin
Memory and time
More from Sundance, the known and newly discovered, the best and brightest
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Patrick Z. McGavin

January 2024

Notes from the new underground
Memories of the Sundance Film festival, past, present and future
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Patrick Z. McGavin

November 2023

The sex diaries of Anna Fishbeyn
A candid conversation about art, sex, desire and female representation
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Patrick Z. McGavin

May 2023

Body and Soul
Actor and filmmaker Deborah Twiss on the beauty and wonder of new frontiers, and making sexually charged movies
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Patrick Z. McGavin

March 2023

Shadows
Cinematographer Laura Valladao on finding the art and meaning through the in-between spaces
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Patrick Z. McGavin
'I have to fall in love with the people I am photographing'
Cinematographer Carolina Costa on the art and beauty of the landscape of the human face
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Patrick Z. McGavin
The music of chance and fate
Composer Jon Ong talks tethering sounds to images, and weaving motifs and patterns into his own song and dance.
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Patrick Z. McGavin

February 2023

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