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Can Reiner Holzemer’s documentary finally lift the lid on the famously private designer? 

BY Hettie Judah |

A report from this year’s MeetDocs Eastern Ukrainian Film Festival in Kharkiv

BY Maxim Edwards |

A rare screening of ‘The Dilapidated Dwelling’ (2000) at the Barbican shows why Keiller’s films should be compulsory viewing

BY Dan Hancox |

From 14th-century frescos in Siena to a refugee camp in Greece, Astra Taylor's new documentary examines the corrosion of electoral politics

BY Dan Hancox |

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

BY Sierra Pettengill |

Jenn Nkiru will direct the fourth film, on Detroit and Berlin techno culture, to premiere at Frieze Los Angeles

Gucci and Frieze present the third film in the Second Summer of Love series, Disco Planet imagines a mid ’80s New York enraptured by Italo Disco

BY Ed Gillett |

Gucci and Frieze present film number two in the Second Summer of Love series, focusing on the history of acid house

BY Ed Gillett |

A tender new film about the fashion icon and troubled genius whose creative vision ‘started the 21st century’

BY Shahidha Bari |

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

BY Sierra Pettengill |

This new docu-series on a cult established in Oregon in the 1980s is a timely exercise in tolerance and a fascinating insight into extremism

BY Ross Simonini |

Fifty years on, Ellen Mara De Wachter retraces Robert Smithson’s journey to his home town of Passaic, New Jersey, in search of the monuments of his time

With his show at Simon Lee gallery opening this evening, the legendary Italian artist, and one of the key figures in the arte povera movement, discusses the solace of creativity, reflecting self in society and searching for the ‘third paradise’ of connecting difference

How documentary filmmakers are experimenting with historical narratives to better understand the present

BY Jessica Loudis |

Kosovo-born Sislej Xhafa's first exhibition in Germany speaks to the artist's concerns around identity politics and his birthplace

With her current solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, the Dutch-American artist explains her travelling, hybrid procession-protest piece which uses graphic design and portable sculptural pieces to champion women’s rights

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

BY Sierra Pettengill |

The filmmaker on being placed on a terror watch list, aesthetic approaches, and Julian Assange’s gender politics in her new documentary Risk

BY Yohann Koshy |

Eduardo Williams’s new documentary focuses on the cruelty of the job market for young people in three different countries

BY Ela Bittencourt |

Errol Morris’s new documentary is a touching portrait of photographer Elsa Dorfman

BY Ela Bittencourt |