A GREAT DAY IN HIP HOP REVISITED
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.
Photography
BIRD’S EYE!
Petra Leary, a skater girl with no formal education, claims her place as one of the top aerial photographers in the world.
ELLIOTT ERWITT, SILENCE SOUNDS GOOD
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Charming and engaging, with a youthful curiosity well into his 80s, Elliott Erwitt has always let his photos speak for themselves. His iconic black-and-white shots of presidents, popes, celebrities and everyday folks span over six decades and multiple countries. Narrated by his assistant, this film takes us inside his extensive photo archives and […]
FLOWER PUNK
A profile of Japanese artist Azuma Makoto, who has sent his floral sculptures into space and sunk them to the bottom of the ocean.
HURDLE
NYC PREMIERE In this visceral film, two Palestinian youths strive for freedom and self-worth in a community consumed with violence. Sami, a parkour coach, leads leaping young men across the stunning cityscape of Jerusalem. Mohammad teaches a new way of seeing to dozens of youthful photographers who dream of a world without walls. Using these creative […]
IMITATING LIFE: THE AUDACITY OF SUZANNE HEINTZ
WORLD PREMIERE When she didn’t find the perfect man with whom to build the perfect life, photographer Suzanne Heintz created her own—with mannequins. Wielding the camera as a weapon against conformity and suffocating gender roles, Heinz uses her outrageous self-portraits with plastic husband Chauncey and daughter Mary Margaret to explode the myth of the idyllic […]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
NYC PREMIERE Alan Berliner approaches documentary like a collagist and memoirist in films such as Nobody’s Business and First Cousin, Once Removed (2013 DOC NYC Short List). For the last 40 years, he has compulsively clipped his favorite photos from The New York Times. Now he transforms that collection into his greatest work—a profound and […]
LIKE THE BACK OF HER HAND
An artist contends with loss through the process of creation, destruction and art-making.
ONE THOUSAND STORIES: THE MAKING OF A MURAL
Follow artist JR in the creation of his first video mural project, The Chronicles of San Francisco.
SHOOTING THE MAFIA
NYC PREMIERE Master filmmaker Kim Longinotto (2015 DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute honoree) returns to the festival with her latest profile of a woman determined to make change in the world. Longinotto’s film explores the life and work of acclaimed Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia, who took up her camera to bravely bear witness to the Mafia’s […]