“Inheritance,” directed by Neil Burger and written by Burger and Olen Steinhauer, immediately plunges us into Maya’s world, captured with a gritty, grungy lo-fi aesthetic. Soundtracked to ...

Read on to discover why this style resonates with so many and how it can enrich your creative journey. The lo-fi aesthetic is all about embracing simplicity and authenticity. Unlike polished, ...

Albert Birney’s endearingly crafted, black-and-white idiosyncratic vision of a life consumed by media dabbles in darkness while on a quest to its life-affirming intent. Hand-labeled VHS tapes ...

Hand-labeled VHS tapes line the shelves of the living room where Conor Marsh (Albert Birney), a 36-year-old man living alone with his dog Sandy in 1987 Baltimore, spends many hours watching late ...

“Inheritance” is lively in its nervous, handheld-camera aesthetic, but never terribly exciting or suspenseful. That’s okay, since our protagonist isn’t Jason Bourne. She’s a youth in way ...

This analog library of thrilling fictions and ephemeral images preserved on tape is part of the bevy of references in “Obex,” a miniature epic of melancholic whimsy endearingly conceived in ...