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Spring 2025
Johan Grimonprez, a filmmaker known for spending years and years researching projects and making wondrous use of archival material, graces the cover on the worldwide release of his latest, Soundtrack to a Coup d’État. The cover feature is an extended conversation between Grimonprez and film writer Öykü Sofuoğlu. In a special dossier, four articles in this issue address how policy could help documentary filmmakers—and address just the smallest bit of all of the possibilities. Articles featured in the print version will be published online between March–June 2025.
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Halloween Parade
HALLOWEEN PARADE captures the spirit of a beloved, iconic institution – New York at its most subversive, outrageous, and creative. For the past forty years, the parade’s charismatic leader, Jeanne Fleming, has transformed it from a local pageant populated by giant handcrafted puppets to a world-famous event where hundreds of thousands convene to celebrate artistry and self-invention, and confront the mysteries of death and life – if for only one night. But the inevitable sense of time’s passing slowly encroaches as Jeanne, now in her late seventies, wonders who will assume the mantle of leadership for the parade, a daunting logistical and creative undertaking.
HALLOWEEN PARADE captures the spirit of a beloved, iconic institution – New York at its most subversive, outrageous, and creative. For the past forty years, the parade’s charismatic leader, Jeanne Fleming, has transformed it from a local pageant populated by giant handcrafted puppets to a world-famous event where hundreds of thousands convene to celebrate artistry and self-invention, and confront the mysteries of death and life – if for only one night. But the inevitable sense of time’s passing slowly encroaches as Jeanne, now in her late seventies, wonders who will assume the mantle of leadership for the parade, a daunting logistical and creative undertaking.