
Chrissie Iles
CHRISSIE ILES
1 “Blue” (John Kelly) If YouTube is our collective online cinema, then the best film of the year was posted there: Veteran performance artist John Kelly’s video rendition of “Blue” (excerpted from Paved Paradise Redux, his drag tribute to Joni Mitchell) turns conventions of sexual identity inside out and moved Mitchell herself to tears.
2 Women Without Men (Shirin Neshat in collaboration with Shoja Azari) The unsettling stories of four women’s lives unfold in politically volatile 1950s Tehran.
3 The Posters Came from the Walls (Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams) A documentary on the