This year’s iteration includes titles about AOC, the making of movie sex scenes, and what’s happened to the “stars” of older documentaries.
Tribeca Film Festival
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The Industry and Leisure of the World’s Largest Middle Class
Jessica Kingdon’s new film Ascension documents the factories, etiquette centers, and other contemporary curiosities of China.
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A First-Person Interrogation of a Family’s Guilt-Ridden Past
A combination video essay and road movie, Angelo Madsen Minax’s documentary North By Current understands life upheavals as rites of passage.
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A Romance Horror Film Spotlights the Fraught Politics of Eating Meat in India
Aamis can be simultaneously read as a slow-burning forbidden romance, an allegorical nod to socio-cultural repressions, and as macabre corporeal horror.
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Other Music Remembers a Beloved New York Record Store
The new documentary tells the story of the music institution’s life — and death.
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Learn How New Emoji Are Created
The directors of the documentary Picture Character talk about getting inside the emoji-making process.
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Glimpses of Laurie Simmons’s Life and Art in Her First Feature Film
Laurie Simmons’s new feature film, My Art, screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, includes many metafictional nods to the artist’s real life.
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A Long Overdue Biopic Tells Tom of Finland’s Life Story
A biographical film about the Finnish adman and expert draughtsman who made exquisite drawings of explicit gay erotic encounters is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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A Documentary Introduction to the Art World, with Star Power and Obvious Ideas
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a successful crash course in the forces shaping the art market that fails to go deeper.
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The Rise and Fall of a 1980s Street Art Star
Artist Richard Hambleton’s career took off in the 1980s, but the following decade he was wracked by addiction and destitute. A new documentary tracks his dramatic trajectory.
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A Video Game That Tailors Its Terrors to Your Anxiety
“Go to your happy place,” the game attendant told me as the digital kitchen on my screen filled with milk and I was drowning.
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A Documentary About the Artist Who Stole Banksy’s Work Out of Spite
The Banksy Job looks remarkably like the 2010 mockumentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, but its co-directors maintain that the whole thing is unscripted.