Author: Michael Williams
On the surface, co-writers and directors Madeline Fewer-Sims and Dusty Mancinelli’s 2020 thriller Violation is a story of obsession, jealousy, and reconciliation. It is also a genre-defying movie that inverts common tropes to take audiences out of their comfort zones and deep into abject territory. To present this deeply disturbing and ambiguous tale told from
Why people remain in situations of domestic abuse can be difficult for outsiders to understand. That is because there are unseen, powerful forces that keep victims in dangerous, toxic relationships. Abusers are manipulative and controlling, experts at exploiting their partners’ insecurities to entrap them in an unhealthy relationship. Writer-director Joseph Catté’s short, Ad Lib, illustrates
One purpose of the arts is to help society’s members make sense of the world they live in by holding up a mirror that exposes problematic areas. Two such areas concerning inequality between races and inequality between genders came to the forefront of the American public’s attention in the 1970s. During the 1950s and