Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film explores “the impossibility of translating written language into images and sounds,” notes a synopsis on the website of ...

B for BARTLEBY is a documentary film essay about a very personal confrontation with this narrative: It becomes a re-encounter with a deceased companion, who wanted to film Bartleby all his life. Then ...

Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” about a Wall Street lawyer’s clerk who decides to decline his duties with the words “I would prefer not to,” might not seem a natural fit for ...

Writer-director Angela Summereder discusses the hybrid approach of her movie, screening at Austria's Viennale this week, and her plan for a film about motherhood and climate tied to the Percival story ...