In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises, “Magnasanti” exposes the hellish consequences of top-down civic design. In his new documentary, John Wilson explores how New York City is creeping closer and closer to realizing this fictional metropolis.

Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of n...

Apple Juice is an classic skateboarding documentary shot by SKATE NYC locals from the late 80’s earl...

Dubbed New York's "Queen of the Night," proto–club kid Susanne Bartsch has been throwing unforgettab...

Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on...

La Salsa Vive is a vibrant cinematic exploration of Afro-Cuban music's history, tracing its roots fr...

Empire Skate chronicles the colorful rise and enduring influence of New York skateboarding culture i...

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all t...

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New ...
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it...

"The End of the Line - Rochester's Subway" tells the little-known story of the rail line that opera...

Targeted for several failed redevelopment plans dating back to the days of Robert Moses, Willets Poi...

Stonewall veterans (including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera) and HIV-positive New Yorkers t...

On October 12th, 1978, New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, slumped under ...

A box found in an abandoned storage unit unearths a time capsule of correspondences from a forgotten...

A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Super...

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a...

Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about ...