Documentary Fortnight
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Trailer Watch: Moara Passoni’s Doc Fortnight Selection, Êxtase
Moara Passoni’s astonishing hybrid work of documentary, memoir and fiction, Êxtase, which has been making the festival rounds following a CPH:DOX premiere, arrives in the U.S. at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight. The film will be viewable online from March 28 until April 2 and is a feature debut for the director, who splits her time between her native Brazil and New York. From my 25 New Face profile of Passoni last summer: The hybrid work pulls from the director’s own diaries and interviews with other anorexics to capture the lived experience of anorexia, its social underpinnings and its use as an […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 19, 2021 -
Trailer Watch: K8 Hardy’s Outfitumentary
K8 Hardy does not want you to watch her debut feature, Outfitumentary. Or, at least, that’s her position expressed in the trailer above. If you choose to ignore her advice, the film has one more screening as part of MoMA’s Doc Fortnight series this Sunday. Also, check out Taylor Hess’s interview with Hardy here at Filmmaker.
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 25, 2016 -
“SELF MADE” OPENS MOMA’S DOCUMENTARY FORTNIGHT
Documentary Fortnight, MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, kicked off its 10th season last night with the world premiere of Self Made. The film, a first for British artist (and Turner Prize winner) turned filmmaker Gillian Wearing, takes the audience through the cathartic process of a Method Acting class populated by a small group of hand-picked non-professionals and led by acting teacher, Sam Rumbelow. The movie shows how strong performances can result from emotional excavation. It’s a raw and emotionally powerful film and one that makes clear that Method Acting, first invented by Stanislavski over a hundred years […]
by Webadmin on Feb 17, 2011
