David and Liani Greaves discuss their work completing Once Upon a Time in Harlem, William Greaves’s documentary of a Harlem Renaissance reunion from
Archival Storytelling
Brydie O’Connor discusses Barbara Forever , her Sundance-premiering follow-up to the short Love, Barbara , and how Barbara Hammer’s archive continues
David Shadrack Smith talks about assembling a wild, unwieldy archive in his Sundance doc, Public Access
Guillaume Ribot discusses transforming outtakes from Shoah and Claude Lanzmann’s writing into All I Had Was Nothingness
Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor is a blockbuster feature documentary constructed from police video evidence obtained through a Freedom of
In its first edition under Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez, IDFA highlighted documentaries that cross borders both geopolitical and
Working with over 1,000 hours of archival footage, Ian Bell and Alex Megaro connect their record of Seattle’s 1999 mass protests, WTO/99, with present
In this interview, Mary Stephen reflects on decades spent shaping other filmmakers’ narratives before turning to her own family in Palimpsest: The
In this interview on Under the Flags, the Sun, Paraguayan director Juanjo Pereira discusses completing his archival excavation of former President
In this interview, Iranian filmmaker Maryam Tafakory discusses how she abstracts and rewrites post-revolutionary Iranian cinema to reveal the queer