casting a glance
Casting a Glance is a tribute to the American artist Robert Smithson. Between May 15 2005 and January 14 2007, I made 16 trips to the Spiral Jetty. Created in 1970, the Jetty is a 1,500-foot long spiral-shaped jetty extending into the Great Salt Lake in Utah constructed from rocks, earth, salt and red algae.
Genre: Documentary
Director: James Benning
Suburban Nightmare: JonBenét Ramsey
More than 25 years after her murder, mystery still surrounds the infamous case of JonBenét Ramsey, who was killed inside her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado in the early morning…
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary uncovering the history and the making of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II films.
The Ondekoza
A documentary profiling a Japanese taiko drumming group based in the remote Sado Island, Japan. The film blurs the line between real-life documentary footage of the troupe’s training and practice…
The Emoji Story
Emojis are a worldwide phenomenon, with some arguing that these smiling poops and heart-eyed faces are on the verge of actually becoming their own language. Who, if anyone, is in…
Blood Into Wine
Music fans know Maynard James Keenan as the frontman of such bands as Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer, but in this documentary filmmakers Christopher Pomerenke and Ryan Page offer…
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world’s largest-known dinosaur, a brand new species of titanosaur.
Prater
Ulrike Ottinger’s documentary Prater (Austria-Germany), a half-decade in the making, chronicles over the past century and more the attractions that contributed to the rise and fall of Prater, the world’s…
The Climate Baby Dilemma
Deciding whether to have a child is an emotionally fraught and deeply personal process. Deciding amid increasingly dire warnings about the climate makes it even more paralyzing. The Climate Baby…
Crime and Punishment
In a small town near China’s North Korea border, a state police station exerts itself as a solicitous caretaker of the locals. As it goes out to catch criminals and…
16 Acres
The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11.
Inequality for All
U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap.
President
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as “The Crocodile.” The election tests…