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Dangerous Waters: Baby Ruth Villarama’s ‘Food Delivery: Fresh From the West Philippine Sea’ Finds Its Way Home After Suppression
In this interview, Baby Ruth Villarama discusses how corporate censorship transformed her documentary about maritime sovereignty into a document of
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Outgrowing Your Parent’s Politics: Lee Anne Schmitt on ‘Evidence’
In this interview, Lee Anne Schmitt discusses how Evidence uses childhood objects and family memories to investigate the propagation of conservative
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The Mirror’s Edge: David Osit Discusses ‘Predators,’ an Appraisal of ‘To Catch a Predator’
David Osit discusses how Predators, his house of cards examining Chris Hansen’s controversial sting show and its YouTube imitators, stealthily
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“Finding the Right Distance”: Gianfranco Rosi Discusses His Venice Special Jury Prize-winner ‘Below the Clouds’
In this interview, Gianfranco Rosi discusses Below the Clouds, his approach to nonfiction, and recent works’ political turn
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“Take These Documents and Squeeze Them”: Juanjo Pereira on Reconstructing a Paraguayan Film Archive for ‘Under the Flags, the Sun’
In this interview on Under the Flags, the Sun, Paraguayan director Juanjo Pereira discusses completing his archival excavation of former President
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How to Decode Fascist Systems Today: Michal Kosakowski on His Venice-Premiering ‘Holofiction’
In this interview on his collage film Holofiction, Michal Kosakowski discusses Holocaust cinema symbols in the present day
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“True Memory Catalogs”: Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini on their Venice-Premiering Doc Waking Hours
In this interview, Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini discuss their migration-focused Waking Hours and their reasons for filming in darkness
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“These Pieces of Time Had to Ricochet Off Each Other”: Robb Moss Discusses ‘The Bend in the River’
In this expansive interview, Robb Moss discusses longitudinal personal filmmaking, his influence as a teacher, and The Bend in the River
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Objet Trouvé: Kamal Aljafari Discusses ‘With Hasan in Gaza’
In this interview, Kamal Aljafari discusses how three tapes filmed in 2001 revealed themselves as a new film, With Hasan in Gaza
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“What They Had to Conceal”: Maryam Tafakory’s Archival Interventions Highlight the Erased
In this interview, Iranian filmmaker Maryam Tafakory discusses how she abstracts and rewrites post-revolutionary Iranian cinema to reveal the queer
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