Three young Black Lives Matter leaders are filmed on the streets of New York City during the first week of the George Floyd protests. 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 […]
WORLD PREMIERE | Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE | After Polaroid acknowledges the ascendancy of digital and announces it would shut down its last factory in 2008, eccentric Austrian scientist Dr. Florian Kaps becomes a man with a mission: to replicate the company’s famously complicated formula and revive interest in instant photography. But passion alone can’t make up for a lack of […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE | Photographer Lene Marie Fossen’s extreme form of anorexia is at the center of her artistic practice, giving the young woman a tool to engage in the representation of her own illness. This haunting portrait reveals how she explores her struggles through her own self-transcendent photography. At once beautiful but undeniably painful, her […]
NYC PREMIERE. Jim Marshall, the only photographer to receive the Grammy® Trustee Award, led a life of intensity. With a career spanning six decades, and a professional philosophy based on intimacy with his subjects, Marshall was the music industry’s preeminent rock photographer. His own wild life gave him a unique perspective, allowing Marshall to capture the […]
An exploration of identity, history and landscape by acclaimed Chilean director Patricio Guzmán. In his latest philosophical act of cinematic self-reflection, the Andean Cordillera mountain range becomes an ark where the most important poetic laws are stored, containing the ruins of the director’s childhood memories and the acts of police brutality and civil resistance that […]
NYC PREMIERE Jim Marshall, the only photographer to receive the Grammy® Trustee Award, led a life of intensity. With a career spanning six decades, and a professional philosophy based on intimacy with his subjects, Marshall was the music industry’s preeminent rock photographer. His own wild life gave him a unique perspective, allowing Marshall to capture the […]
On bucking the system. (TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 78 MIN) Deborah Harry Does Not Like Interviews | Director: Meghan Fredrich Blondie’s Deborah Harry endures years of superficial and demeaning questions from journalists before turning the tables. (USA, 17 MIN) The Art of Making Money: This Guy Has Balls | Director: Nathan Truesdell A man attempts to use his handmade art […]
Short stories from and about New York City. (TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 78 MIN) A Great Day in Hip Hop Revisited | Director: Nelson George A look back at a historic day in music history, September 29, 1998, when Gordon Parks gathered over 200 hip hop artists to recreate the famed “A Great Day in Harlem” image. (USA, […]
A profile of Jill Freedman, the celebrated and award-winning New York City street photographer.