NYC PREMIERE In 1967, Detroit’s mostly white police department was known for its harsh treatment of black citizens. When police raided an after hours party at the intersection of 12th Street and Clairmount, the streets erupted in what’s been called a riot by some, a rebellion by others. It lasted five days and left 43 […]
2017 METROPOLIS COMPETITION WINNER NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Antonio Lopez was the most influential fashion illustrator of 1970s New York and Paris. He was known for discovering talents such as Pat Cleveland, Grace Jones and Jerry Hall. Filmmaker James Crump takes us back to the swinging seventies when fashion designers and their entourages gained the prominence […]
Part of our Bring a Friend special – get 2 tickets for the price of 1! NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Advised by their accountant to form a new company to protect their assets, The Beatles created Apple Corps in 1968 and began investing in all manner of businesses to spread their countercultural ethos, from a fashion […]
NYC PREMIERE In 1985, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was invited to Wilmington, North Carolina, to document the filming of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet on Super 8, in photographs and through audio recordings, with the full participation of Lynch and actors Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern and Jack Nance. Three decades later, Braatz […]
SNEAK PREVIEW DOC NYC is pleased to present a sneak peek at the first two parts of Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s gripping SundanceTV docuseries reexamining the infamous 1959 murder of a Kansas family that Truman Capote explored in his landmark non fiction novel In Cold Blood. Drawn from exhaustive research, including Capote’s notes and correspondence with […]
NYC PREMIERE With a career spanning several decades, Jon Alpert is a past recipient of DOC NYC’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Now he delivers a film that draws upon footage he shot in Cuba for over 40 years. Starting in the 1970s, Alpert’s pioneering work as an independent video journalist won the attention of Fidel Castro, […]
NYC PREMIERE In the 1960s, frustrated by the growing problem of urban pollution, Athelstan Spilhaus, a visionary scientist and futurist comic strip writer, assembled a team of experts to develop a bold experiment: the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC). MXC would be the city of the future, a domed metropolis for 250,000 pioneering residents, built from […]
WORLD PREMIERE The hardcore punk band Agnostic Front formed in 1980 and soon became synonymous with the New York punk scene. At its core were Vinnie Stigma and Roger Miret. Over 35 years later, the legendary guitarist, born and raised on Mott Street, and his Cuban-born vocalist bandmate are still going strong. Interweaving remarkable archival […]
In the 1960s, National Geographic sent a cameraman to film Jane Goodall’s pioneering work with chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park. More than 50 years later, filmmaker Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, On the Ropes) gained access to over 140 hours of this remarkable 16mm color footage. Morgen combines this archival material […]
NYC PREMIERE Director Chris Smith (American Movie) teams with producer Spike Jonze to create an unforgettable portrait of two comedians, Jim Carrey and Andy Kaufman. Carrey was so dedicated to embodying the role of comedian Kaufman that he constantly stayed in character for the months of filming The Man on the Moon. During that time, a […]