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Documentary and Experimental Film by Native American Artists
The Indigenous Now film program brings together performance-based cinematic works by several Native American artists, situated between the documentary and experimental.
Documentary
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One Man’s Quixotic Quest to Walk Every Mile of New York City
The World Before Your Feet follows Matt Green as he spends years walking all 8,000 miles of New York City's roads, sidewalks, parks, cemeteries, and overlooked edges.
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The Art and Friendship of Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti in a Laura Mulvey Documentary
In 1984, feminist filmmaker Laura Mulvey made an essayistic movie about these two artists who lived and worked in post-revolutionary Mexico.
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A Documentary on Basquiat's Teen Years Tracks a Star's Early Ascent
Sara Driver's new documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat wants to bring the young art star back down to earth, but often can't help positioning hovering him above.
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In Berlin, a Celebration of Soviet Might Takes on Nationalist, Pro-Russia Overtones
In his documentary Victory Day, Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa unflinchingly captures a ceremony in Berlin commemorating the Soviet defeat of the Nazis.
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A Documentary Tracks the Competitive Theatrics of John McEnroe
A new documentary made up solely of footage of the tennis star shot in 1984 is a meditation on the psycho-dramatics of sports and a pure celebration of the body in motion.
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A Portrait of Philosopher Donna Haraway as an Impassioned Storyteller
A documentary about the canonic thinker, shot mostly in her home office, seems straightforward at first, then jellyfish start shimmering across the screen.
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Stream Frederick Wiseman’s Documentaries for Free Via Libraries and Colleges Around the US
This week, almost 50 years' worth of Wiseman documentaries went live on Kanopy, after a long period of his work being mostly inaccessible.
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A Film Foregrounds the First Nations Fight Against Fracking
On Saturday, Fractured Lands, a documentary about the Dene activist and lawyer Caleb Behn, will screen at the National Museum of the American Indian.
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The 1973 Documentary that Delved into the NYC Painting Scene
See a rare 16mm print of Emile de Antonio's Painters Painting, which captures the period in American art when post-war abstraction was giving way to Pop.
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A Film Shows a Poignant Vision of Black Life in Hale County, Alabama
In his documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross captures the lives of that county's black residents in beautiful and fragmentary complexity.
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40 Strangers Meet in a Deeply Uncomfortable Documentary
In Leigh Ledare's new film The Task, his subjects are not only aware of their participation in an art project, but openly speak about it.