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Films to Watch on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s Return to Japanese Rule

by Dan Schindel 3 days agoMay 19, 2022

From 1968 to 1973, the Nihon Documentarist Union did radical documentary work in Japan. They made two films in Okinawa before, during, and after its reversion.

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How Hollywood Has Helped Colonize Hawaiʻi

by Aaron Hunt May 16, 2022May 17, 2022

Anthony Banua-Simon’s documentary Cane Fire contrasts decades of Hollywood images of his home with its current reality.

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Filmmaker dream hampton Culls Memories From Detroit’s Flooded Basements

by Bedatri D. Choudhury May 15, 2022May 15, 2022

Her short film Freshwater is now playing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

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A Bruce Mau Documentary Can’t Explain What the Man Does

by Sophia Stewart May 9, 2022May 9, 2022

MAU is too charmed by its subject to nail down what he has achieved, or why people should even care about him in the first place.

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The Overlooked Women Filmmakers of the Anti-Colonial Movement

by Dan Schindel May 4, 2022May 5, 2022

BAM’s retrospective In the Images, Behind the Camera features rare and restored works by female filmmakers of the Global South.

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Prismatic Ground Tries to Change the Conversation on Experimental Documentary

by Dan Schindel May 3, 2022May 12, 2022

Film programmer Inney Prakash talks to Hyperallergic about what it takes to start a new film festival solo during a pandemic.

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Metrograph Cancels Pro-Union Documentary Event, Drawing Backlash

by Jasmine Liu May 3, 2022May 3, 2022

Management canceled a Q&A with the creators of the 1979 film The Wobblies over concerns that it would be “co-opted by activists,” said the film’s distributor.

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Over 40 Years Later, The Wobblies Is as Relevant as Ever

by Dan Schindel April 27, 2022May 5, 2022

The 1979 documentary, recently restored and now returning to theaters, is a vital record of the early years of the Industrial Workers of the World.

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How Do We Know What’s Real in the Era of the Deepfake?

by Eliza Levinson April 25, 2022April 26, 2022

The Museum of the Moving Image show Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen tries to help visitors equip themselves to discern real images from fake ones.

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The Fake Town Where Police Trained to Suppress Protests

by Dan Schindel April 18, 2022April 18, 2022

Hyperallergic talks to director Sierra Pettengill about her documentary Riotsville, USA, which finds the roots of modern policing techniques in the 1960s

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Dora García Documents Networks of Feminist Survival in Mexico City

by Billy Anania April 12, 2022May 5, 2022

In two shorts showing as part of García’s exhibition at Amant, she explores the unfinished revolution of diplomat Alexandra Kollontai.

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Fire of Love Captures a Literally Volcanic Romance

by Dan Schindel April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Married volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft took incredible footage of eruptions. Sara Dosa’s documentary uses it to tell their unusual love story.

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