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Summertime Blues: A Bigger Splash (1967), David Hockney.

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Joining the chorus of artists like Nan Goldin, Hito Steyerl, and Domenic Esposito in decrying the complicity of pharmaceutical companies in the opioid epidemic, conceptual artists-turned-filmmakers Karen Hess and Daedalus Howell have released their feature film "Pill Head."

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SPECIAL SERIES: BURNING DOWN THE ART HOUSE

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Burning Down the Art House, Part One

Daedalus Howell - March 15, 2017

Whilst developing my feature-length art film, Pill Head, I ask why I'm drawn to the genre and whether it's really a genre at all.

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Burning Down the Art House, Part Two

Daedalus Howell - March 23, 2017

Still in pursuit of the elusive art film, I find my way to Ingmar Bergman through the portal of parody and pubescent thanatos.

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Burning Down the Art House, Part Three

Daedalus Howell - March 31, 2017

The third and final installment of the mini-series "Burning Down the Art House" focuses on Tom Schiller’s hat tip to Fellini, "La Dolce Gilda," starring Gilda Radner and evoking a nostalgia trip for your host.

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I’ve Seen the Action Figure and He Is Us: Blue Snaggletooth

Daedalus Howell - January 16, 2018

Officially, he doesn’t exist. He has no past, no story — he’d be prime black-ops material if he wasn’t part of the most visible cultural phenomena of the past two centuries. And, then again, he isn’t really visible at all. They say he’s a...

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Cinema Daedalus Howell - July 2, 2019

When we were in production on Pill Head, I ran to the local deli to pick up sandwiches because, this being a...

Happy 100, Pauline Kael

Cinema Daedalus Howell - June 19, 2019

Today marks the centenary of film critic Pauline Kael’s birth. Beside recreating film criticism in her New Yorker column and giving shape...

On Anthony Burgess and Inspiration: The Me in The Metropolis Movie

Cinema Daedalus Howell - October 5, 2018

Artists can absorb influences so deeply, it can be renewing — if not startling — when we discover traces of them in...

Art House Films for the Compleat Idiot

Cinema Daedalus Howell - April 23, 2018

Before we discuss art house films, we must take a stroll: Long before the "Dummies" guides, there was How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A...

The Beginning of the Film Industry

Cinema Daedalus Howell - December 28, 2017

The film business is born in Paris with the Brothers Lumières' first paid public film screening on this day, December 28 in 1895. Among...

On Location in Petaluma

Cinema Daedalus Howell - December 27, 2017

When making films at my scale, which is to say "human scale," shooting on location is the only affordable way to do it. And...

Daedalus Howell

As a creator of narrative works in fiction, film, and culture journalism, Daedalus Howell is the author, most recently, of the novel "Quantum Deadline" and the writer-director of the recently released feature film "Pill Head." MAGAZINE | Daedalus Howell collects his research into the recherché and related cultural curios.

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Cure for the Summertime Blues

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I have the need — the need for mead! Not.

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SPECIAL SERIES: BURNING DOWN THE ART HOUSE

Burning Down the Art House, Part One

Burning Down the Art House, Part Two

Burning Down the Art House, Part Three

Generation X

I’ve Seen the Action Figure and He Is Us: Blue Snaggletooth

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Happy 100, Pauline Kael

On Anthony Burgess and Inspiration: The Me in The Metropolis Movie

Art House Films for the Compleat Idiot

The Beginning of the Film Industry

On Location in Petaluma

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