November 10, 2022
Noriaki Tsuchimoto is a towering figure in Japanese documentary cinema, but only known by name and reputation in the West. Beyond festival screenings
Documentary History
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October 20, 2022By May 2000, the fear of an impending apocalypse dimmed. The Y2K glitch, the much-hyped computer error that supposedly stemmed from the inability of
August 18, 2022In December 2020, the Indian government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that has held an
August 15, 2022The end of El Gran Movimiento , the hybrid second film by Bolivian director Kiro Russo, consists, quite literally, of all that came before. In a
April 19, 2022Few media arts centers last 50 years, let alone in Manhattan, where sky-high rents drive most out of business. But DCTV has survived for half a
June 28, 2021"On the 7th of August 1941, in the city of Calcutta, a man died," begins Satyajit Ray’s 1961 documentary Rabindranath Tagore (1961). The eponymous
May 9, 2021In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1 , written by Alex Heeney, Elena Lazic and Brett Pardy, is a compact eBook from Seventh Row that is
October 23, 2020Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith are celebrating 20 years of building Firelight Media into a company that tells eloquent stories about Black people,
March 18, 2019While making his 1999 documentary Home Page , which documents the emerging culture of the Internet through one of its wunderkinds, 21-year-old
August 30, 2018Joshua Glick's meticulously researched book, Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 , melds, as its title states, a