Behind the Camera

The 2025–26 edition of the High School Essay Contest is now open for submissions. Double Exposure is Columbia University’s undergraduate film and media journal. This contest was created to share the voices of young writers—who, we’ve found, are often just as deeply (if not more) connected to the media landscape and culture as the rest of us.

Brooke Berman (Barnard ‘92) is an independent filmmaker, playwright, and author whose debut feature, Ramona at Midlife , released to...

No matter how horrible they are, we’re all guilty of hate-watching (or secretly loving) teeny bop movies. Their familiar structure is...

d. Peter Weir “What we see, and what we seem are but a dream: a dream within a dream.” Landscapes open Peter Weir’s haunting 1975...

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">It all begins with an idea.</p>

I turned the stile with my palm clenched, pointer finger on shuffle, and “long awaited sunset”-titled playlist reverberating through my...