The moving image artist’s 2002 video *Corpus Callosum launches an onslaught of video effects at indifferent office workers and couch potatoes.
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The Life Story of Blade Runner’s Screenwriter, Told Through His Minor Movie Roles
The way director Michael Almereyda mines images of Hampton Fancher’s decades of acting work makes Escapes unique among film industry documentaries.
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John Berger and Alain Tanner’s Films About Life After Political Failure
John Berger’s attraction to the primacy of storytelling led him to the Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner, who together collaborated on a series of three films, now showing at Metrograph.
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A Korean Punk Band’s Struggles with Censorship
Jung Yoon-Suk’s documentary Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno tells the story of the college punk duo Bamseom Pirates and the arrest of the band’s producer after posting controversial tweets.
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In a New Documentary, Errol Morris Turns His Camera on a Polaroid Portraitist
Errol Morris’s film about the photographer Elsa Dorfman touches on big questions about cycles of life and obsolescence, but remains doggedly cheerful.
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A Documentary Recap of Reagan’s Presidency, the Original Political Reality TV Show
Composed entirely of archival footage and news reports, The Reagan Show highlights how the 40th US President treated his time in office as an extension of his acting career.
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Reactivating the Lost Revolutionary Films of Guinea-Bissau
In her debut feature, artist Filipa César documents the digitization of films made in the African country around the time of its independence.
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Albert Maysles’s Final Film Rides with Train Passengers Across the US
In Transit, the late documentarian Albert Maysles’s final film, was completed after he died in March 2015 and focuses on the journeys of passengers at various stages of life.
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How the TV Adaptation of I Love Dick Recenters the Female Gaze
I Love Dick is a show about how women are discouraged from having ideas and what happens when one woman lets her fantasies drive her art.
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A German Filmmaker Who Captured the Poetics of Labor and the Legacy of Fascism
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting A Vision of Resistance: Peter Nestler , the first large retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker in the US.
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A Documentary on Tyrus Wong, a Long-Ignored Illustrator for Disney and Warner Bros
Wong spent 30 years in the film industry, though racial attitudes of the time kept his contributions unacknowledged until the 21st century.
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A Biopic Tells the Unlikely Story of Folk Artist Maud Lewis
Maudie, directed by Aisling Walsh, offers a complex portrait of a woman who resided on the literal edges of society and had no formal training, but lived and breathed her painting.
