Documentary

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

BY Hettie Judah | 28 APR 20

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

BY Maxim Edwards | 10 OCT 19

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

BY Dan Hancox | 15 FEB 19

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 | 19 NOV 18

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

BY Sierra Pettengill | 07 NOV 18

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

06 OCT 18

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 | 16 JUL 18

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

BY Ed Gillett | 06 JUL 18

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

BY Shahidha Bari | 18 JUN 18

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

BY Sierra Pettengill | 07 APR 18

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 | 04 APR 18

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

07 MAR 18

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

22 FEB 18

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

BY Jessica Loudis | 12 FEB 18

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

12 DEC 17

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

08 DEC 17

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

BY Sierra Pettengill | 16 AUG 17

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 | 30 JUN 17

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

BY Ela Bittencourt | 08 OCT 16

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

BY Ela Bittencourt | 05 OCT 16