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What New Yorkers Are Too Afraid to Say About the Future and Climate Change
In the documentary The Hottest August, director Brett Story interviews sweaty bystanders about how the world is changing.
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How a '70s Anthropological Experiment Turned into the "Sex Raft"
In Marcus Lindeen's documentary The Raft, the subjects of the disastrous study reenact its strange events.
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The Woman Who Recorded Decades of TV News on 70,000 VHS Tapes
The documentary Recorder explores the life and work of Marion Stokes, who amassed the world's largest independent TV archive without anyone noticing.
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A Cuban Filmmaker's Brutal Satire of Religion and Colonialism
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s The Last Supper plays as part of Film Forum's ongoing series The Hour of Liberation: Decolonizing Cinema, 1966-1981, which presents both classic and overlooked anti-imperialist films.
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An Intimate Film Traces Black Masculinity From Boyhood
In A Drop of Sun Under the Earth, Shikeith positions Black boyhood as a means to interrogate and open up other possibilities for Black masculinity.
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The New Technological Cold War Runs Through a Cable on the Ocean Floor
Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Meredith Lackey's Cablestreet, a surreal documentary short about Chinese tech giant Huawei.
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Ava DuVernay's When They See Us Is a Brutal Look at a 30-Year-Old Injustice
The new Netflix miniseries joins an ongoing cultural conversation over the case of the Central Park Five.
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In a New Docuseries, the New York Times Struggles to Defend Journalism
The Weekly, the paper's documentary venture with FX, is well made but overly reliant on "Truth" branding.
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The Restoration of a 1446 Painting Revisits Florence’s History of Infanticide
A documentary dives into the history of the Institute of the Innocents, which housed unwanted babies, and the first painting it ever commissioned.
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Julia Reichert's 50 Years of Challenging the Status Quo
A retrospective series at the Museum of Modern Art is putting a spotlight on the veteran documentarian.
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The Exciting Native American Film Program at This Year's Whitney Biennial
At Yale Union, visitors can preview the films Sky Hopinka has curated for the Biennial.
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In Encountering a Sinking Migrant Ship, a Pilot Confronts the Edges of her Civilization
In the film, Styx, the protagonist's fancy yacht, independence, and wisely provisioned voyage emerge as emblems of blind exclusivity, and the technologies of her civilization are tainted with civic mercilessness.