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Death by Landscape: Masao Adachi’s ‘A.K.A. Serial Killer’

On October 8, 1968, a .22 caliber Rohm RG-10 handgun––colloquially known as a “Roscoe”––was stolen from a U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka. Over the course of the next month, four shootings took place in Tokyo, Kyoto, Hokkaido, and Nagoya. The perpetrator, Norio Nagayama, was arrested and imprisoned the following April, two months shy of his 20th birthday. The cold, hard facts of this teenage murderer’s case served as the basis for Masao Adachi’s pioneering, hauntological landscape documentary A.K.A. Serial Killer, completed in 1969 but not shown publicly until 1975.

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“The Toll That Takes on Your Life”: Chris Smith Rejects Sports Documentary Label for Hit Surfing Docuseries ‘100 Foot Wave’

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“At the Core, It’s About Supporting Filmmakers”: Galya Stepanova on Doc Alliance’s Evolving Mission

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“How War Becomes Part of the Human”: Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, and Simon Mozgovyi on their Cannes-Premiering ‘Militantropos’

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“Capturing the Poetic Essence of Childhood Innocence”: Deming Chen and Hansen Lin on Their CPH:DOX and Jeonju Winner ‘Always’

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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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The Last Free Space: The Public Libraries of Maine

THE LAST FREE SPACE explores the public libraries of Maine from a holistic vantage point, narrowing in on some greater truths about these open yet enigmatic spaces—their historical origins, current roles and uses, and plans and purposes for the future.