Sarah Hanssen’s film and video works have shown at festivals and screenings throughout North America and Europe. She received her Masters of Fine Art in film and video at the Massachusetts College of Art. She works as a programmer for the Hamptons International Film Festival and an assistant professor at Pratt Institute. Her most recent accomplishments include the birth of two excellent daughters. She lives in New York City.
Up In The Air gets so many of our modern conundrums right that it’s hard not to classify the film as a tragedy, even with some great laughs.
Two films with similar settings, but very different outlooks on success, help us examine our own ideas about privilege, hard work, and what makes us feel valued.
The Baader Meinhof Complex is a complex, challenging film about extremism and powerlessness.
Filmmaker Sophie Barthes was born in France and grew up in the Middle East and South America. A Columbia University graduate, Barthes has made short films that garnered numerous awards. She completed residencies at the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony and the 2007 Sundance Directors Lab. Her new film, Cold Souls, is in selected theaters now.
The Curator: [...]
An interview with award-winning documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud.
One of Mendes’s great successes is the mood he captures, in which we see doom but continue to hope for these characters. Kate Winslet’s April is that fragile balance of strength and whim so rarely achieved without overdoing it. The world around her closes in, and yet she continues to believe that things can change. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Frank for the coward he is; his youthful good looks and charm allow him to coast in a world where people are pleased to accept the easiest answers and deflect personal responsibility.
Seven Pounds: touching, or morally reprehensible?
Moskow, Belgium is the kind of film that appeals to both the hopeless romantics and the sarcastic cynics.
In a country overrun with Wal*Marts and convenience stores, the idea of living dependent only on the land seems abstract. But director Ben Kempas’s new documentary turns that distant truth into a concrete reality.