Mike Clarke

we need to recognize and embrace the microverses—those local, specific, heterogeneous ecosystems where cinema can actually thrive.

Instead of constantly strategizing about how to bring audiences to us, we need to flip the idea: we should be thinking about how to reach them in a mo

We must reclaim the creation of a public sphere through film—especially as all cultural life is increasingly privatized, corporatized, and platformed.

What's effective is art that inspires people to join organizations and campaigns that are actually able to leverage power.  To make that kind of art—i