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Daniil Kharms' Shimmering World
by Jess GoldschmidtWillem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Photo: Lucie JanschNow, one day, a man went to work, and on the way he met another man, who, having bought a loaf of Polish bread, was heading...
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BAMcinemaFest 2014: Q&A with Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan (For the Plasma)
Grafting sci-fi mystique and lo-fi melancholia into one surprisingly intimate drama is no mean feat. But filmmakers Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan have done just that, creating a gorgeously shot 16mm...
View ArticleWhite Wave Premieres Eternal NOW at the Fisher
Dumbo-based company White Wave Dance presents the world premiere of Eternal NOW at the BAM Fisher this week (Jun 19—21). The company was one of 10 Brooklyn-based organizations that participated in the...
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BAMcinemaFest 2014: Q&A with Amanda Rose Wilder (Approaching the Elephant)
Filmmaker Amanda Rose Wilder’s first feature is already drawing comparisons with Truffaut’s Wild Child for its shimmering black-and-white images and raw portrayal of kid culture. A documentary seven...
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BAM Illustrated: Daniil Kharms'"The Old Woman" (Part 2)
Robert Wilson's The Old Womanopens this Sunday. It's inspired by the writings of Daniil Kharms, and I've adapted one of Kharms' stories into a comic. (The story is also called "The Old Woman," but the...
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From BAM Design—BAMcinemaFest 2014's Visual Identity
by Katie PositerryBAMcinemaFest kicked off this week with Boyhood at the BAM Harvey Theater. To celebrate the festival, the BAM design team pulled back the curtain to reveal some of the thought process...
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BAMcinemaFest 2014: Q&A with Young Jean Lee (Here Come the Girls)
The New York Times has dubbed her “the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation.” Of course, that was before she recorded an album of original songs (with guest appearances by Laurie...
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In Context: The Old Woman
The Old Woman, Robert Wilson's surreal, vaudevillian adaptation of the titular short story by Russian writer Daniil Kharms, comes to BAM from June 22—29. Context is everything, so get even closer to...
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BAMcinemaFest 2014: Q&A with Tony Gerber (The Notorious Mr. Bout)
To US law enforcers, Viktor Bout is an arms smuggler with intent to harm US military personnel. To his family and friends, he is a hard-working businessman trying to provide for his family in...
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Baryshnikov and Dafoe Make It Physical
by Susan YungMikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe. Photo: Lucie JanschMikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe take the BAM Opera House stage in The Old Woman, directed by Robert Wilson, but they followed...
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BAMcinemaFest 2014: Q&A with Jason Giamprieto (Whiffed Out)
by Nathan GelgudJason Giampietro and I are old pals: we met over a decade ago through a mutual friend, and we hit it off when we started talking about filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder because he had...
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BAMcinemaFest 2014: Q&A with Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn (L for Leisure)
Filmmaking duoLev Kalman and Whitney Horn's second narrative feature follows a group of friends as they jet-set from one international locale to another on various breaks from grad school. Set in the...
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Don Coleman is done with Robert Wilson!
by David HsiehMikhail Baryshnikov, Don Coleman, Robert Wilson, and Willem Dafoe. Photo: Elena OlivoIn the busy, sometimes hectic backstage area at BAM, Don Coleman is a reassuring presence. With a full...
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Spike Lee—By Any Means Necessary
by Michael KoreskyRosie Perez and Spike Lee in Do the Right Thing. Photo: Universal/PhotofestThere are many ways critics, journalists, and other kinds of commentators have tended to categorize Spike...
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BAMcinemaFest 2014: Q&A with Joe Callander (Life After Death)
"As impossible to pin down as it is to stop talking about" (Moving Image Source), BAMcinemaFest alum Joe Callander's debut feature Life After Death charts the life of a directionless young Rwandan...
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BAM CUP 2014
Every four years the world turns its eyes towards the World Cup as 32 nations battle it out for the title of greatest footballing (soccer) nation. Here at BAM a different competition has begun. As the...
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About Last Night: The Ignite Gala
Last night BAM wrapped up a very full season with the Ignite Gala: Benefiting BAM Education. The fun-filled evening began with cocktails in the Dorothy Levitt lobby, followed by a gorgeous dinner on...
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The Majestic BAM Harvey Theater
by Louie FleckImagine if you will, the entertainment options in 1904: no internet, no video games, no YouTube or TV… in fact practically no movies! Oh yes, and no radio. If you wanted to be...
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Next Wave Festival Preview:Independence Day Edition
By Robert WoodA slightly cheesy, glibly bohemian, and yet entirely reasonable proposition for this Fourth of July: art has had everything to do with creating what we understand to be America (and the...
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When Invitations Matter: Polish theater finds from the Harvey Lichtenstein...
by Anika ParisThe BAM Hamm Archives' recent work processing the files of BAM President Emeritus Harvey Lichtenstein yielded these beautiful items from two luminaries of Polish theater: Jerzy...
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