Man with a Movie Camera (1929) is Dziga Vertov’s most well-known film. Film schools teach it as a classic example of montage, the city film, and early documentary. It gets screened by repertory cinemas and can easily be located on DVD or online. However, Man with a Movie Camera did not always enjoy top billing… Read more »
Guest post by Doug Bauder, Director of Indiana University’s LGBTQ+ Culture Center. This April 9th at the IU Cinema, come view the film States of Grace and, following the screening, meet the amazing Grace Dammann and her friend, Helen Cohen, who directed this film. Grace is a pioneering AIDS physician and a longtime resident of… Read more »
Guest post by Abbey Stemler and Karen E. Woody. Sweet Dreams is a documentary film set in Rwanda that follows the efforts of Rwandan women to pursue an entrepreneurial dream of opening an ice cream shop. The significance of the film is that the women featured come from different backgrounds, yet are able to instill… Read more »
Guest post by David Fresko. Patricio Guzmán’s documentaries, above all his three-part epic The Battle of Chile (released between 1975 and 1979), have solidified his position as one of the great political filmmakers of his generation. Born in 1941, Guzmán was initially trained as a fiction filmmaker during the late 1960s in his home country… Read more »
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Guest post by Nathaniel Sexton. I recently had the opportunity of seeing Frederick Wiseman’s 1968 documentary High School for a second time, as part of IU Cinema’s ongoing Filmmaker to Filmmaker series. The last time I saw the film, over ten years ago, I was myself a student in a public high school. Indignation marked… Read more »
Guest post by Alexandra Coțofană, Director, ILFF. In 2017, the InLight Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (ILFF) is honored to partner with the IU Cinema, one of its most trusted partners every year. ILFF aims to promote and support the intersections of human rights and documentary film and to facilitate dialogue between those who make documentaries… Read more »
