A long, green candle burns down to a final nub and sputters in the surrounding wax. Hiss… and a smoke trail rises in curly tendrils, reaching, grasping, searching for an exit from the room. There is no exit. The sickly black smoke pools at the ceiling, poisoning the air.

Sacha Baron Cohen could justifiably be called the comedian of the millennial generation. He’s become something of a hero for people in the age-group with his righteous pranking of stodgy politicians and bigoted americans.

In anticipation of Bijou After Hours' upcoming virtual screening of In Fabric on the weekend of October 17th, we look back at Peter Strickland's second feature.

Lee Sailor: In your class, you mentioned early filmmakers, German expressionists, I think, who were interested in occultism and the occult. I was wondering if you could elaborate on that. Like, were they worshiping the devil or something? Andrew Owens: No, no, at least not that I'm aware of.

It was around this point—after watching Collective, but before going to bed—that I heard South by Southwest had been canceled as a result of the pandemic.

Three days before leaving for True/False, I sent a dumb joke to the Bijou group chat. “A reminder that with coronavirus spreading everyone at True/False should take sensible precautions such as not licking strangers unless you are pretty sure they've washed their hands first.

Recently, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts put on a production of Orlando, a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel. It was incredible.

The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?), Brazil

Laura Poitras is best known for Citizenfour, a documentary about Edward Snowden’s global surveillance disclosures which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2014, but few people have seen the preceding two films in the trilogy that Citizenfour completes - My Country, My Country (2006) and The Oath…

Hollow hallways permeated with a monolithic student body