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An Epic-Length Documentary Tackles Ernest Hemingway

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian April 15, 2021April 18, 2021

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s latest PBS series does a good job of telling the writer’s life story, but doesn’t probe his thornier aspects.

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Filmmakers Condemn Lack of Diversity at PBS and Critique Overreliance on Ken Burns

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel April 6, 2021April 6, 2021

The BIPOC documentarian collective Beyond Inclusion has drafted an open letter to the broadcaster.

Posted inFilm

9to5 Strikes at a Missing Piece of Feminist History

by Eileen G’Sell February 20, 2021February 19, 2021

In the late 1970s and early ’80s, women office workers banded together in a labor movement that sprouted up in 25 cities across the country.

Posted inFilm

The Undocumented Activists Who Turned Themselves In to Infiltrate ICE

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel October 6, 2020December 10, 2020

Hyperallergic talks to Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, the directors of the documentary The Infiltrators, about how they filmed this “reverse heist.”

Posted inFilm

The Timely Resonance of PBS’s Asian Americans

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 13, 2020

The new miniseries offers an informative overview of history through personal, often deeply emotional testimony.

Posted inArt

These Interactive Documentaries Look at 3D-Scanned Desserts and Earth From Orbit

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 13, 2020August 3, 2021

Public Update, a new series from POV Spark, presents its first slate of unconventional nonfiction works.

Posted inArt

A New TV Show Looks at Family Albums Across the USA

by Serubiri Moses September 6, 2019September 6, 2019

The PBS series Family Pictures USA suggests that “sharing photographs reminds us of our common roots and strengthens connections with our friends, families and neighbors.”

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Two Artists Are Alla-bout Bob Ross, and a Forthcoming Book on His Painting Techniques

by Sarah Rose Sharp August 9, 2018August 10, 2018

Two artists went on a journey towards Bob Ross, what they discovered were happy little accidents.

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In Ken Burns’s Vietnam War Documentary, Claims of Objectivity Obscure Patriotic Bias

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel October 27, 2017April 15, 2021

By accepting patriotic doctrine even as it claims to present all sides, the epic documentary takes some slippery liberties with truth and history.

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A Cinematographer’s Documentary About Making Documentaries

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel October 23, 2017November 4, 2019

In Cameraperson, documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson turns the lens back on her own experiences working on films.

Posted inArt

The Homes, Parks, and Towns that Shaped the United States’ Built Environment

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 1, 2016February 6, 2017

The built environment of the United State was constructed on grand ideas, including parks that inspired morality, towns designed to curb strikes, and homes that offered everyone their own slice of the land.

Pedro E. Guerrero, self-portrait, circa 1950s, New York City (© 2015 Pedro E. Guerrero Archives)
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A New Documentary Champions the Photographer Who Captured Wright, Calder, and Nevelson

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton September 17, 2015September 17, 2015

Photographers who shoot the work of famous artists are rarely celebrated in their own right, but a new documentary shifts the focus onto the man responsible for some of the most iconic images we have of Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson.

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