The Raisers’ Edge: MoMA’s Transcendent “Documentary Fortnight”
Low and high art come to fruitful blows in the 14th edition of one of New York’s most substantive — and absurdly unsung — cinema exhibitions, the International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, aka Documentary Fortnight (February 13-27). Low? For 120 years, film has been on the short end of the cultural totem pole, and host venue Museum of Modern Art has never made any bones about the distinction. In this case, however, the medium is infused with accomplished elements from other art forms ranking among the cognoscenti. Long before complementary fora like DOC NYC and the Film Society’s […]
by Howard Feinstein on Feb 12, 2015