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At this year’s edition, the Basque festival demonstrated why it prides itself on its political conscience, with many of its titles exploring
In this interview, Rebecca Miller discusses how radical listening shaped her five-part series Mr. Scorsese, from tracking down childhood gangsters to
For decades, Katja Raganelli’s documentaries safeguarded the stories of female filmmakers when the industry tried to erase them
In Tatyana Tenenbaum's Everything You Have Is Yours, we see dancer Hadar Ahuvia as she develops her performance by the same name, the culmination of years spent celebrating her own Jewish identity while also challenging Israeli tradition. After its theatrical run in NY, Documentary spoke to Tenenbaum about adapting her work in dance documentation to documentary, dance film tropes, and political activism in a nonverbal art form.
Maintenance Artist, directed by Toby Perl Freilich, is a fascinating look at Mierle Ukeles—an undeterred feminist and advocate for the working class who constantly defied labels. Just prior to the film’s documentary competition debut, Documentary caught up with Freilich to learn how she ended up collaborating with this unconventional and unusually empathetic character.
Documentary is happy to debut an exclusive clip from Dan Covert’s Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life , a SXSW Audience Award-winning biodoc about the
Documentary is happy to debut an exclusive clip from Leslie Buchbinder’s 3D documentary Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is celebrated not only as America's “cultural ambassador to the world” but for its wide array of jaw-dropping
Alex Winter has worn many hats in his 55 years. As a youth, he acted on Broadway. After college, he headed out to Los Angeles, where he continued to
Apple TV+ recently premiered Home, a new docuseries about nine of the world’s most innovative abodes. The series was set to debut at SXSW in March