Documentaries reflect stories from Israel and Palestine with varying struggles to be seen and heard--and to satisfy everyone amid the culture wars.
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Caveh Zahedi's deep impact on American filmmaking is studied through his singular comic-non-fiction series The Show About the Show.
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John Smith is a London-based experimental filmmaker whose works include Hackney Marshes, Blight, Citadel, and The Girl Chewing Gum.
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Painting with John, How To with John Wilson, and All Gas No Brakes reinvent (documentary?) comedy.
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Jessica Beshir’s lyrical Faya Dayi and Daniel Kötter’s formalist Rift Finfinnee, two oddly similar films set in an Ethiopia struggling with the upheavals of urbanization and industrialization, are almost excellent movies. Both
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When absence becomes presence, documentaries turn into art. How films like The Act of Killing and Bisbee '17 capture the void.
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