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# The Experimental Vanguard of Documentary Film
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-of-the-real-2020/
- Published: 2020-11-17T17:35:54.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:42:35.000Z
- Description: Film at Lincoln Center is presenting the seventh edition of Art of the Real, featuring Sky Hopinka, Jessica Sarah Rinland, and more.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: Film, Art of the Real, Documentary, Film at Lincoln Center, New York, Review, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:08 (2019, 2020, part 3)

Film at Lincoln Center usually presents [Art of the Real](https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/art-of-the-real-2020-coming-to-flc-virtual-cinema-on-november-13-26/?ref=hyperallergic.com), its annual showcase for artistically forward-thinking nonfiction film, in the spring. This year, those plans were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and so it's only now that they've been able to put together the 2020 edition — naturally, via an online program. Notable selections this year include *143 Sahara Street*, about a remote café in the Algerian desert; *The American Sector*, about disparate sections of the Berlin Wall around the world; and *A Shape of Things to Come*, a profile of a survivalist living alone in the Sonoran Desert.

Additionally, here are the films in the lineup that Hyperallergic has already reviewed out of earlier festivals:

- [*małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore*](https://hyperallergic.com/mining-indigenous-myths-and-languages-to-contemplate-lifes-meaning/)
- [*Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another*](https://hyperallergic.com/toronto-international-film-festival-2019-documentaries/)
- [*Bugs and Beasts Before the Law*](https://hyperallergic.com/berwick-film-and-media-arts-festival-animistic-apparatus/)

Individual titles can be rented for $10, and there are [a variety of package options and passes available for purchase as well](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/page/art-of-the-real/?ref=hyperallergic.com).

**When:** November 13–26  
**Where:** Online

*More info at* [*the Film at Lincoln Center website*](https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/art-of-the-real-2020-coming-to-flc-virtual-cinema-on-november-13-26/?ref=hyperallergic.com)