Implicit in Hassen Ferhani’s Roundabout in My Head is the notion that there should be a certain level of trust between filmmaker and his subjects.
Conceived like an ambient album, Dead Slow Ahead is at its best when simply airing out its otherworldly energies.
What Means Something lays bare filmmaker Ben Rivers’s own process.
Greetings to the Ancestors builds a peculiar aura less reducible to the cumulative effect of a series of art-house mannerisms.
Perhaps the most compelling aspect of Cozarinsky’s story is how circuitous his and his parents’ geographical trajectories have been.
Art of the Real 2015: The Royal Road, The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk, & Becoming Anita Ekberg
Fundamentally, Jenni Olson’s The Royal Road is a paean to the Bay Area landscape.
Eduardo Williams’s I Forgot at first appears to be a fairly observational documentary about youth.
Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Second Game is a fine example of an impulse toward meta-narrative that has recently reinvigorated the nonfiction form.