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
Varda (1928-2019) provided a blueprint for an experimental, politically-radical, idiosyncratically personal and wide-eyed humanist cinema
Monrovia, Indiana, a folksy, novelistic tale of white America, plays somewhere between documentary, cliché and ghost story
This year’s edition of the acclaimed documentary film festival showcased an impressive combination of social realism and artistic manipulation
Filmmakers RaMell Ross and Khalik Allah elide the reductive narrative wholeness usually demanded of documentaries about black subjects
A new documentary portrays the Italian village that has performed plays about itself every summer for 50 years
Claire Simon's new documentary exposes the workings of an elite film school