Over at Sprüth Magers , New Yorker critic Hilton Als curated the first-ever retrospective of Walker’s film work. The artist draws from fantasy, archival material, and her own life to create narratives of sex and slavery, cruelty and desire. Silhouette figures beat and rape each other, their atrocities softened by Walker’s folksy forms. One particularly moving video, 8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture (2005), features the voice of the artist’s daughter, exposing brutal fears and truths about living as African American women in the United States. In an essay published on the occasion of the show, called “As It Happens,” Als writes that in Walker’s films, “the black figure becomes more American and subject to his own fantasies of domination and revenge and longing. No one is safe in these moving landscapes.”