The inherent violence of captured images has been exhaustively analyzed over the past century, from Barthes to Sontag, and yet the terrain of critical theory rarely crosses over into cinematic praxis.

Inspired by Sam Raimi's latest, we analyze what makes being marooned on a desert island so cinematic in the first place.

From a solitary photographer capturing desert rock formations to abandoned movie theaters housing unexpected evils, Joshua Erkman’s directorial debut “A Desert” is consistently preoccupied with images ...

"Am I pretty?" Kani Releasing has debuted an official US trailer for a Japanese indie film titled Desert of Namibia, the second feature made by young Japanese filmmaker Yoko Yamanaka. This first ...

Luis (Sergi López) travels with a group of ravers in an effort to find his missing daughter in Sirāt. (NEON) The Arabic word sirāt means "path" or "way"; in Islamic scripture, it refers to a narrow ...

In the 40th year since the release of Desert Hearts, Merryn Johns sits down with the film’s director and its stars to ...

Kana (Yuumi Kawai) is a listless young woman in her early twenties living in Tokyo. Working as a beautician, drifting between men, and moving through life without clear rhyme or reason, her character ...

Joshua Erkman tells IndieWire about how his decades of film restoration and preservation work led to his directorial debut about the people who give everything to the craft of image-making. The film, ...