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Independent is pleased to partner with Puck on a public program of talks at the 16th edition of Independent, which returns to Spring Studios in Tribeca on May 8th-11th. The live events will feature guest speakers Matthew Higgs, Marion Maneker, Lucy Mitchell-Innes, Charles Moffett, Maureen Paley, Kendra Jayne Patrick, and Chris Sharp, while musician Joe McPhee will celebrate the publication of his memoir Straight Up, Without Wings, The Musical Flight of Joe McPhee.

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For Rosa Barba, film is more than a storytelling medium—it’s a sculptural material and a language of light. In a new essay for Independent Features, critic Hannah Sage Kay traces how the artist’s filmmaking and installations with celluloid and projectors invite viewers to “slow down, to find humor and play in the potential impenetrability of language.”

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