AARON HUNT

01 Mar Maneuvering Home: An Interview with the Director and Producer of Midwives

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BY AARON HUNT Every day before filming, director Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing and her cinematographer Thae Zar Chi Kang crossed a military checkpoint into a village in Rakhine State. Hlaing grew up here; her auntie even introduced her to the eponymous midwives, Hla and Nyo-Nyo. But...

04 Feb Sundance Shorts: Five Surprise Standout Films

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BY AARON HUNT Sundance 2022 debuted some surprising films among otherwise conventional indie fare. But the festival’s better selections can feel out of place. Modern-day ethnographies like Jihad Rehab contradict correctives like Listen to the Beat of Our Images, which fills the lacuna of native historical...