Written by Megan Scanlon Expressing themes of love, spontaneity, and authenticity, audience members were treated to a conversation with the legendary filmmaker Albert Maysles and DOC NYC Artistic Director Thom Powers before Friday evening’s screening of Salesman. Debuted in 1968, Norman Mailer saw the film and told Maysles he “thought it said more about America […]
Written by Megan Scanlon “Sometimes there’s an issue not of legal or illegal, but right or wrong” U.S. Army Captain Stuart Herrington Rory Kennedy’s Last Days in Vietnam challenges the dominant story told about the 1975 fall of Saigon when the last of the Americans in the country were ordered to evacuate without their allies, the […]
Keep up to date with all DOC NYC happenings on our blog, Flickr, and YouTube channel. Recent videos include a post-screening Q&A of I Am Big Bird with Carroll Spinney as Big Bird in person, and Albert Maysles, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker receiving their Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Visionaries Tribute. See photos from the […]
Written by Laura Dattaro From the crumbling buildings of the economically failing Upsala College was born WFMU, an independent radio station that’s survived nearly three decades on listener donations, the work of all-volunteer DJs, and playing whatever the hell they want. It’s a chaotic story told somewhat chaotically in Sex and Broadcasting, which had its […]
Written by Jacob Appet American ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno was so enchanted by Central African Pygmy music that he set a personal goal to not only meet the indigenous Bayaka population, but to become a permanent resident of the traditional hunter-gatherer society. Song From The Forest, which had it’s New York City premier at DOC […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur In Friday night’s showing of Banksy Does New York, filmmaker Chris Moukarbel explores the month-long New York City residency of famed anonymous street artist Banksy. While Banksy may not have been in attendance (or perhaps he was…), many of the New Yorkers who appear throughout the film were. At […]
Written by Maggie Glass The disturbing and probing documentary AN OPEN SECRET premiered on Friday night at DOC NYC, with a full audience that included many of the film’s brave participants and supporters. In the film, director Amy Berg explores child abuse and exploitation in the entertainment industry through the stories of its many victims, […]
Written by Krystal Grow If it had been true, the story of J.T. Leroy would have been a nearly unprecedented literary landmark, a discovery so raw and verbally vivid that celebrities, authors, editors, journalists, photographers, fashion designers and film makers would be rendered helplessly devoted. But the story of J.T. Leroy, and the […]
Written by Krystal Grow Caroll Spinney’s yellow-feathered tenure as the world’s most lovable bird started in 1969, when the young actor, artist and puppeteer met legendary Muppet-maker Jim Henson. At the time, Spinney was a sideman on the Bozo’s Big Top, and despite the invaluable live television experience he gained, thought he was capable of […]
Written by Jacob Appet The DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute, held in Chelsea’s elegant Park Restaurant, joyfully paid tribute to both the pioneers of modern documentary cinema and the vital filmmakers whom they continue to inspire. The afternoon was kicked off by executive director Raphaela Neihausen, who noted her delight at seeing so many familiar faces […]