Benjy Caplan

Late-1970s North Philadelphia was crumbling under violence and poverty. Rennie Harris didn't make it any safer for himself by jamming safety pins through his clothes and painting checkers on his sneakers well before Vans sold them that way. "They'd yell at me and call me gay. I'd get into a...

Every December, hundreds of artists converge on Wynwood in the weeks before Art Basel Miami Beach. With spray paint, a few bucks from building owners, and determination to display their brilliance, these artists transform the city of Miami's former garment district. In recent years, these masters and neophytes have created...

Consider the 61-year-old woman who was beaten until unrecognizable, raped, and strangled to death. Two televisions and a VCR were stolen from her home. Or how about the 26-year-old shoeshine girl stabbed more than 50 times and left to die in a church driveway, also after being raped? "It's too...

Longer movies are not always better movies; otherwise your grandma would have a Palm d’Snore for the time she fell asleep “with the Skype on.” Fortunately, the Miami Short Film Festival, running this Saturday through December 1, cuts to the quick with more than 80 films from nearly 40 countries,...

Get a one-night-only glimpse of your miserable future in Ghosts With Shit Jobs. A sci-fi mockumentary made for only $4,000, the film is structured as a Chinese television program from the year 2040, when the “ghosts” of a collapsed America do the shit jobs Chinese people refuse to do. Allow...