A Candid Conversation with Director Chloé Zhao
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
A Candid Conversation with Director Chloé Zhao
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Chloé Zhao Is Yearning to Know How to Love
Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao speaks candidly about fear and the challenge of loving without armor. In an intimate, searching conversation, she discusses Hamnet, the unease of recognition, and how training as a death doula is reshaping her work and her emotional life. Zhao’s insights reveal the quiet, invisible work behind her storytelling and the ways her experiences outside film continue to inform the worlds she creates.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
Brooke Nevils recounts the night that changed her life while she was a young NBC producer at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. In a clear-eyed, unsparing essay, she examines how power, silence, and institutional loyalty shaped her response—and why the myth of the “perfect victim” continues to fail women.
THE CUT
Never forgotten after her murder, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha became a touchstone through Dictee, while much of her film, performance and installation work remained largely inaccessible. A major exhibition at Berkeley’s BAMPFA offers the most complete view yet of her interdisciplinary practice, situating her work within networks of artists who have carried her ideas forward.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
At Sprüth Magers in Berlin, Kara Walker’s new watercolor and ink works revisit the visual language of 19th-century popular history, subtly reshaping scenes drawn from America’s colonial imagination. On view through 4 April, the exhibition offers a measured yet unsettling reflection on how historical narratives are formed, remembered and quietly distorted over time.
FRIEZE
Hailey Benton Gates moves behind the camera with Atropia, a sharp, darkly comic debut shaped by years of investigative reporting and character acting. Drawing on her research into U.S. military training simulations, Gates turns satire into critique, blending romance, paranoia and performance. The result is a debut that reflects her circuitous path through fashion, media and film, and her instinct for exposing systems through humor.