Against the muted exhibition setting, each of the eleven fictional portraits is spotlit, each notably taking place somewhere in America. There is a continuity of sorts between portraits as in each one, the sitter watches TV inside while red mushroom clouds explode out the window behind them.
The composition process is intensive, starting early in the summer as the music writing committee prepares to craft music for their annual fall and spring concerts.
Gathered in the cozy ambience of the Southern Café & Music Hall, University students joined Charlottesville locals this Saturday for a night of live music. While the Charleston-based headliner Easy Honey showed off their polished sound and unique energy, the two opening acts stole the show by captivating the audience.
A cinematic and bittersweet exploration of one of the most iconic couples in music, “Priscilla” brings an unexamined perspective on the thirteen-year-long relationship to the big screen.
For actors in ongoing strikes, future workers in the entertainment industry and flourishing student creatives, these issues aren’t going anywhere.
Books like “The Song of Achilles,” “It Ends With Us” and “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” are among the numerous other BookTok books currently in the process of being adapted for the screen solely because of their popularity on the app.
The process of making music can be an isolating one. Fourth-year College student Piergiorgio Wilson recognizes this shortcoming, and through personal and professional efforts is working to bridge the musical gap.
Yan strongly believes that it is math’s complexity and abstract nature that usually repels others. In response to such, appealing to artists is an ideal method to “explore the beauty of math to make it more accessible to the general audience.”
Even though each member has different degrees of musical backgrounds, the group’s adaptability, perhaps their strongest element, is evidenced by their cohesiveness on stage.
These five autumnal tracks with notes of folk, country and melancholy will help listeners traverse the retrospective and confusing emotions of the fall season.
The series of projections around Grounds featured work from local artist Jeff Dobrow in partnering with The AV Company, a local audio-visual equipment service. These projects were not originally intended for Halloween but more so to provide a bit of artistic pandemic fun in place of canceled student activities.
Ultimately, “May December” is a film about moral ambiguity. “Insecure people are dangerous,” Gracie says to Elizabeth, but even more dangerous is the inability to distinguish past from present, innocence from guilt, right from wrong. According to Haynes, at least, it’s all just shades of gray.
Equal parts poignant and amusing, this film is a labor of love that illustrates Oglala Lakota reservation life with thoughtfulness, telling a greater story about the complexities of the human condition.
“The Holdovers” fully commits to a 1970s pastiche and successfully pulls it off.
“All of Us Strangers” — adapted from the 1987 novel “Strangers” by Taichi Yamada — follows Adam, a writer plagued by grief and loneliness, played by Andrew Scott.
U.Va. alumna and singer-songewriter talks about new music and recent accomplishments since moving to New York City
On a warm Autumn evening on Friday, excited viewers poured into the Paramount Theatre to view one of the Virginia Film Festival’s most anticipated films — “Origin,” written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
To Lawrence, the Like the Waters We Rise posters and other creative responses to disasters are not just a “call to action.” They are a “creative way to reimagine” the future, a way to decompress our anxieties and solastalgia while looking to a better tomorrow.
Ben Sloan — a writer and teacher currently living in Charlottesville — published a new collection of poems entitled “Then On Out Into a Cloudless Sky.”
Below is a selection of movies — ranging from family friendly to spine-chilling — pulled from the most highly acclaimed stop-motions horror films of all time.
