Making my debut for hyperallergic! I spoke with Third Horizon programming director Jonathan Ali about the film festival's return after a year off, as well as their unapologetic support of #Palestine . Third Horizon 2024 is happening May 9-12 in Miami. hyperallergic.com/908879/third-h…

For May Day, we bring you MAYDAY, made by the Yale student film collective May First Media to document the demonstrations surrounding the 1970 New Haven Black Panther trials. MAYDAY was preserved by the Yale Film Archive in 2016.
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The last time I saw Paul Auster was at a gathering of friends of Ricky Jay, the night prior to the crying of Ricky's collection at Sotheby's. I worked up the nerve to tell Paul how much his work meant to me.

Please tell your heroes this. You may not get a second chance.

Amidst police violence at Columbia, CUNY and UCLA, the news that my friend Paul Auster has died. In 1968 he was one of the Columbia student occupiers, fleetingly captured by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead in a documentary called The Fall

Thank you, Filmmaker Magazine. If you're interested in how we brought the high-rises to life and what I'm working on next, read the interview here: filmmakermagazine.com/125886-minhal-…

Chicago and Cabrini-Green in the '90s, referencing 'Cooley High' and 'Ferris Bueller,' Seurat and Walter Ellison -- Minhal Baig talks w/ Natalia Keogan about 'We Grown Now,' out now from Sony Pictures Classics. filmmakermagazine.com/125886-minhal-…

#RIP Paul Auster. We had a French exchange student in my h.s. who was so shy she barely spoke, except one day when she saw me reading NEW YORK TRILOGY & we talked nonstop about Auster. His playful, abstract work made him an early fave & his gentle humanism inspires & unites us.

Sad news. R.I.P. Paul Auster. nytimes.com/2024/04/30/boo…

#WKCR #Columbia Student Radio: We can independently confirm there were students in Hamilton (Hind’s) Hall. Shafik’s “outside agitator” claim that’s being reported on CNN right now is false. “They are our peers.”

WKCR reports Columbia President email announces NYPD will remain on campus til May 17 — until after graduation — first thing tonight that seems to choke up some of the on-air student reporters

the university that administers the Pulitzer Prizes is trying to make sure there is nobody on-site to document what is about to happen

wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u

CNN has a diverse panel of anchors and guests all giving different reasons for why Columbia was right to call in hundreds of NYPD police officers to arrest student protesters.

Faculty Statement on Imminent Police Action at Columbia University
The American Association of University Professors, Columbia University Chapter
For immediate release: April 30, 2024, 8:00pm

At this hour, the NYPD is massing on barricaded streets outside the gates of Columbia…

for live coverage of intense police activity converging on Columbia campus listen to WKCR 89.9fm and online

I had work in the afternoon, so I saw “All Of Us Strangers” first thing in the morning. Only four people appear, but it was a good movie. I felt like I couldn't bring myself back to the real world for a while after. I somehow managed to make it to the office while listening to…

Judy Reyes, of 'Scrubs' and the new Max show 'Turtles All the Way Down,' is Peter Rinaldi's guest on the 'Back to One' podcast. filmmakermagazine.com/125883-judy-re…

Briefly activating my dormant account to say: If anyone in the struggle wants to screen RIOTSVILLE, USA - on or off campus, in any setting - please use whatever copy you have to do so. (and if you can't find a hi-res link, just contact me.) Love and solidarity from NYC!