Holly Willis

Photo courtesy Video Data Bank In the late ’80s, Sadie Benning catapulted from her bedroom in Milwaukee, where she was a lonely queer teen making home videos, to the bright lights of media stardom, where she was rightfully celebrated as a leader in a new queer cinema. Museum curators, academic......

Photo by Katja PerreyFilmmaker James Benning, subject of an ongoing career retrospective at Filmforum, is known primarily for his attention to structure: For each film, he adopts a set of rules and structures the film around it, then gives us pieces of a story in such a way as to......

Photo by Kathleen ClarkWe get the culture we deserve, so it should come as no surprise that the Top 10 lists of 1998's best films were a schizophrenic mix of quasi-independent projects produced by the major studios, provocative foreign features with no hope of ever screening in the U.S., and......

This week, experimental filmmaker Jennifer Montgomery visits Los Angeles with her second feature, Troika, a film that continues her iconoclastic forays into the feature-length format. Her first was Art for Teachers of Children (1995), an autobiographical account of her life as a 14-year-old prep-school student and the affair she had......