While North American documentaries are becoming increasingly political and divisive, Souvenirs, Iraeli filmmaker Shahar Cohen’s directorial debut doc, is the very human story of a father and son trying to understand where they came from so they might to understand who they are. Souvenirs follows Shahar, an unemployed filmmaker, and his 82-year-old father, Sleiman, as they drive through Europe. Sleiman, a former WWII truck driver in the Jewish Brigade, believes they are retracing his experiences... [continue]

Jim Jones was not your typical self-proclaimed messiah. The man preached love for all races and classes, freedom of speech and socialism through Christianity. In 1978, Jones and more than 900 followers, known as Peoples Temple, moved from California to Guyana. They were going to build the ideal society. Dubbed Jonestown, after Jones himself, it was to be a utopia for the disenfranchised; a place where believers of all races and classes could lead self-sufficient... [continue]

In 1996, we learned that, (a), a book had been published under the title The Vagina Monologues, (b), said book began with the question "If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?", and (c), what followed were the documented, serious answers from women who sat down and actually thought about what their vagina would wear if it were getting dressed. At the time it seemed like a bad feminist joke. Sometimes it’s nice... [continue]

Photo by Garnet Hertz. If a cockroach could drive, where would it go? What would this site look like if crabs dictated the content? Are domesticated house crickets happier in the Matrix? Opening today, InterAccess presents ZOO, an exhibition of three works by three artists exploring the relationship between nature and artificial life. The word ‘zoo’ invokes images of animals removed from their natural habitats, relocated to constructed environments, specifically cages, for the audience’s... [continue]

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