Video, film & new media

Top art films at the BFI London Film Festival

From Cate Blanchett performing artists' manifestos to an animated Van Gogh biopic

No Woman, No Drive

Satirical video by Saudi Arabian comedian Hisham Fageeh

Window dressing at the New Museum

The window display format is making a comeback with a new work by Alex Da Corte in the empty storefront next door

How Pacific Standard Time plans to reframe film and video history

A group of exhibitions and programmes to artists from across the Americas

Guggenheim Bilbao celebrates 20th birthday with Bill Viola

Retrospective honours US artist who sparked museum’s commitment to video art

Triennale di Milano: art effects empathy as forced migration anchors show

The Restless Earth explores the divisive subject currently preoccupying global media

Bill Viola reimagines the Renaissance with a retrospective in Florence

In 1974, fresh after graduating from the experimental studies programme at Syracuse University’s visual and performing arts department, Bill Viola moved to Florence to work at Art/Tapes/22, one of the first video art production studios in Europe

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Moving Image fair embraces virtual reality

The fair’s co-founder explains why now is the time to look at works that use the nascent technology

Bill Viola reimagines the Renaissance with a retrospective in Florence

The Palazzo Strozzi mixes Viola's videos and installations with the Old Masters that inspired them

Art on film at Sundance, from Van Gogh’s landscapes to an orbiting VR vanitas

Drawings come to life and visitors follow the trail of malware code at the annual film festival in Park City, Utah

Steve McQueen’s Ashes to have US debut at the ICA Boston

The artist’s film of a young man killed by drug violence was a star of the 2015 Venice Biennale

Shezad Dawood’s ten-part film Leviathan to launch in Venice in May

Following the models of HBO and Netflix, episodes will be streamed at international venues and released as a feature film in 2020

Getting digi with it: why new media art still hasn't fully gone mainstream

As new technology is increasingly adopted by artists, can curators and collectors keep up?

Three films to watch out for from the Toronto International Film Festival

From Jonas Mekas darkly humorous memories of escaping the Second World War, to concentration camp tourism, to a photographer facing the death of her favourite technology

Artangel’s latest commission by Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê shows the backbreaking harvest of bird shit

The multi-screen installation is on display at a former Eclectic Theatre in London’s Peckham

Shirin Neshat dreams big for first solo show in Africa

The Iranian-born artist is premiering two new videos at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg this week

It’s a jungle out there: interactive installation brings the Amazon to Times Square

Urban explorers just need a smartphone app and headphones to experience the sounds of the rainforest on Broadway

Gillian Wearing asks for a peek through people’s windows

The UK artist will unveil her new film project, including submissions from the public, at the House festival in Brighton

Art—coming soon to a cinema near you

Short films by major artists will be screened unannounced before regular features in the UK

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Welcome to the virtual world

With the ground-breaking Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset hitting the mainstream later this year, a growing number of artists and museums are incorporating this and other new technologies into their work

John Akomfrah’s Venice Biennale hit film to get UK premiere in January

Vertigo Sea will debut at the Arnolfini in Bristol before touring to Margate and Manchester