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‘Stray Dog’ Challenges Preconceptions of What Life Is Like in an RV Park in the Rural Midwest
We spoke to director Debra Granik about her intimate, arresting new documentary on life in America's changing heartland.
'L for Leisure' Is a Hilarious Send-Up About the Life of the Mind on Summer Break
Beyond the film's jokey acting and satire-worthy conceit are nuanced meditations on time, the environment, and politics.
Real Life Turned Up to 11: 'Actress' and the Documentaries of Robert Greene
Robert Greene's new documentary Actress exists at the blurry intersection between observation and collaboration, nonfiction and drama.
The School Where Children Can Do Whatever They Want (Pretty Much)
Director Amanda Rose Wilder talks about "Approaching the Elephant," her new documentary exploring one year at a free school.
Johnny Woods Creates Art That Dives into the Uncanny Valley
The artist, animator, and curator has directed videos for Big Boi and Hooray for Earth and had his work shown on Adult Swim. His surreal output is helping to usher in a style that is both very real and totally synthetic at the same time.
There's a New Documentary About Renegade New Jersey Radio Station WFMU
We talked to director Tim K. Smith about the station's troubles to stay afloat in the Great Recession.
Manny Kirchheimer's 'Stations of the Elevated' Is a Paean to the Old New York
The painted trains that were popularly despised as emblem’s of NYC's decay and chaos in the late 1970s and 1980s are now viewed with a certain nostalgia and respect, along with the gritty landscape that has since vanished.
Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-in #95
Greetings, losers. My name is Nick Gazin, and I am VICE's comics expert. In this column I write about comics, zines, art books, fan culture, and events related to those things. Mostly I just review comics though.