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A man in a cap stares directly into the camera. The angle is distorted, as if shot with a fish eye lens. Another man in the background also looks into the camera. The two are in a densely vegetated area
Looking Back: Contemporary Ethnographic Filmmaking Grapples With Its Own History of Extraction and Offers New Modes of Accountability
Long mired in the colonial legacy since its inception, ethnographic documentary has recently undergone a notable shift toward collaborative and
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Under a blue cloth that is semi-transparent, a teenaged girl lays on the floor with her eyes closed.
“Mind and Heart”: Mehrdad Oskouei and the Team of ‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon’ on Remote Collaboration
With IDFA-winner A Fox Under a Pink Moon, Mehrdad Oskouei evolves his work with marginalized youths into a remote-directed collaboration with
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In front of an illuminated screen of the Amazon, three actors sit or stand in the dirt.
“Telling a Story Together Creates Another Story”: Milo Rau on the Utopian Documentarism in His ‘Antigone in the Amazon’
I first encountered the work of Milo Rau back in 2020, when his reimagining of the story of Jesus, The New Gospel, premiered in Venice. Set in the
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