Documentaries
On the murder of a performance artist set out to heal a war-torn world.
On the murder of a performance artist set out to heal a war-torn world.
The filmmaker on her 1995 film BloodSisters documenting San Francisco’s leather-dyke scene.
Cypriano’s documentary Born to Be follows the profound journeys of several patients and doctors at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
On documentary poetics and the interconnectedness of crises.
The final part of a performance trilogy on climate change, Falling Out fuses puppetry, Butoh, and Flex, to reflect on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
The insurgent Argentine documentarian’s retrospective screens at Anthology Film Archives from February 22 through 28.
Documenting disappearing languages.
Documenting and improvising alternative lives.
Pamela Cohn talks to Grant Gee, the celebrated filmmaker who directed films about Radiohead, Joy Division, and most recently, W.G. Sebald’s novel, The Rings of Saturn.
Aric Mayer discusses the problems and possibilities in photographing New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in this audio slideshow. Aric was the lead photographer covering the storm for The Wall Street Journal.
A brand new mother unsentimentally nudges her crying newborn toward her breast just after giving birth.
The Secret Agent is a feature length documentary investigating the effects and implications of the use of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange used in Vietnam between the years 1964 and 1971.
