Movies: Sam Drake

Terminal Island is a portrait of Paradise Lost. Los Angeles, California is a place of immense beauty and a perfect climate, but it is also a nexus for ecological dread. Smoggy skylines, overdevelopment and the dying off of the iconic (and invasive) L...

Imagining possibilities of disembodied being — a cow becomes meat becomes man becomes angel — while a surveillance balloon hovers overhead....

Inadequate attempts to describe a sensation; lingering sea sickness and other terrestrial forms of disorientation....

Fragmented records of events almost too sinister to believe: Cold War era covert radiation testing performed by the United States government on its citizens. The film grapples with the challenges of documenting the invisible, and capturing what is me...