WORLD PREMIERE Featuring professional and amateur photographers, film lab technicians, community organizations, ICP educators, and even Kodak and Lomography representatives, Grain explores the stories of those committed to using real, physical film in the digital era. Whether it is a fashion house seeking out artistic collaborations or an amateur perusing eBay for old film stock, […]
NYC PREMIERE Spain Rodriguez, like his contemporaries Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman, was part of the vanguard of underground cartoonists who burst forth in the 1960s and 70s to push comics forward as an art form. Spain took inspiration from his varied experiences in the Road Vultures motorcycle gang and in left-wing politics to create […]
2020 SHORT LIST SHORTS: DIRECTING AWARD The injustice surrounding the shooting death of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins at a South Central Los Angeles store became a flashpoint for the city’s 1992 civil uprising. As the Black community expressed its profound pain in the streets, Latasha’s friends and family privately mourned the loss of a vibrant child whose […]
Japanese artist Azuma Makoto has sent his floral sculptures into space and sunk them to the bottom of the ocean, but, most of the time, he thinks about the life and death of flowers. (Courtesy of Conde Nast/New Yorker). This film has English language closed captioning available. For more information about closed captions and […]
Presented in three programs, DOC NYC’s Short List for Shorts highlights 12 documentary shorts that impress us as the year’s leading awards contenders. Flower Punk | Director: Alison Klayman Japanese artist Azuma Makoto has sent his floral sculptures into space and sunk them to the bottom of the ocean, but, most of the time, he thinks […]
After the police arrest the thieves who took two of her paintings from an Oslo gallery, Barbora Kysilkova is desperate to recover her artwork, but they are nowhere to be found. Intrigued by one of the thieves, Karl-Bertil Nordland, she asks him to sit for a portrait, beginning an unconventional friendship that affects both the […]
Runner Up: Audience Award DOC NYC 2020 For more than 500 performances, Derek DelGaudio left New York City audiences moved and astonished by his one-man show combining the art of illusion and storytelling. Filmmaker Frank Oz turns DelGaudio’s intimate live performances into an unforgettable film about redemption and identity that builds with both emotion […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE | Shining a light on the previously unexplored role of paper in ink painting, Beijing-based artists Liu Dan and Shao Fan explain how paper shapes their work. Included with the screening ticket is an exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with Olivia Wang (Director), immediately following the film. This film is part of the shorts program […]
Celebrated digital artist Jacolby Satterwhite contemplates some of the most fundamental questions around the relationship between artists and the works they create. This film has English language closed captioning available. For more information about closed captions and accessibility at DOC NYC, please click here. Included with the screening ticket is an exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with […]
Visual creatives and the perspectives they imagine. (TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 81 MIN) Her New York | Director: David Gross An intimate portrait of artist Jill Gill, whose paintings, dating back to the 1950s, capture the never-ending cycle of change New Yorkers have come to accept as a part of daily living. (USA, 8 MIN) The Incredulity […]