In this interview, Rajee Samarasinghe discusses making the limits of documentary practice visible in his short about forced disappearances in Sri
Ethnographic Films
Long mired in the colonial legacy since its inception, ethnographic documentary has recently undergone a notable shift toward collaborative and
In 2005, Wu Wenguang, a founding figure of China’s independent documentary movement, joined forces with choreographer Wen Hui to create the Beijing
Film at Lincoln Center’s recent retrospective, “The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache,” brought more attention to The Mother and the Whore (1973)—the
By May 2000, the fear of an impending apocalypse dimmed. The Y2K glitch, the much-hyped computer error that supposedly stemmed from the inability of
On February 18, 2004, I received a phone call from the Musée de l’Homme in Paris informing me that Jean Rouch had died unexpectedly in an automobile