Documentary Fiction
A film investigating memory and history, premiering exclusively on BOMB, with a brief interview by Alex Zafiris.
Two films tell the tragic story of reporter Christine Chubbuck’s on-air suicide in 1974.
“All evidence is wrong. It’s distressed—just like memory.”
During a train ride from New York to Massachusetts, Rosa Barba and Joan Jonas exchanged thoughts on volcanoes, deserts, and poetry, on film versus video, and the layering of time and place in their works.
With official-seeming letters folded next to staged photographs, the project moves fluently between the evidentiary and the fanciful.
Director David France talks about activism, justice, and the ongoing struggle to find meaning, and his new documentary about the AIDS crisis, How to Survive a Plague.