Editor's note: Over the next few weeks, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the films that have been honored by the Academy of Motion
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Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema by Scott MacDonald Published by Oxford University Press 2015 Don't let the "Avant-Garde
I first saw Barry Alexander Brown and Glenn Silber's documentary The War at Home as a high school student in Minneapolis. Their portrayal of the anti
Dear IDA Community, Transition of any kind is an opportunity for reflection. In the space between two defined states, we are afforded a chance to take
Dear Readers, As we were going to press, the great Albert Maysles passed away at 88, culminating a rich and expansive life and even more so, a
In 2014, Northwestern University announced the launch of a new Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media, to be housed in the School of Communications
Every president since Lyndon B. Johnson has made curing cancer a cornerstone of their health-care initiatives. With each passing administration, the
Twelve years after making Spin (1995), the famous found-footage masterpiece created from pirated satellite feeds, Brian Springer released a dense
Filmmaker Les Blank, the recipient of the IDA’s 2011 Career Achievement Award, was nothing if not a man at peace with his obsessions. By turns a
Dear IDA Community: As many readers of Documentary magazine may have already heard, I left IDA at the end of 2014 to accept a new position with the