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Sierra Pettengill

Sierra Pettengill is a filmmaker and archivist based in New York.

Drawing on raw archival footage from 1930, Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa highlights the drama of dubious truths

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Varda (1928-2019) provided a blueprint for an experimental, politically-radical, idiosyncratically personal and wide-eyed humanist cinema

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Monrovia, Indiana, a folksy, novelistic tale of white America, plays somewhere between documentary, cliché and ghost story

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This year’s edition of the acclaimed documentary film festival showcased an impressive combination of social realism and artistic manipulation

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Filmmakers RaMell Ross and Khalik Allah elide the reductive narrative wholeness usually demanded of documentaries about black subjects

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A new documentary portrays the Italian village that has performed plays about itself every summer for 50 years 

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Claire Simon's new documentary exposes the workings of an elite film school 

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