This month, a range of video essays about tech-related subjects and history.
Dan Schindel
Dan Schindel is a freelance writer and copy editor living in Brooklyn, and a former associate editor at Hyperallergic. His portfolio and links are here.
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Frederick Wiseman’s Bucket List Included Making a Restaurant Doc
“Filming in a kitchen is like working with a ballet or theater company,” the filmmaker told Hyperallergic in an interview for the release of his new film Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros.
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Video Essays to Watch This Holiday Weekend
This month, we feature videos on criticism, artificial intelligence, social media, and more.
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Doc Examining Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking Has Its Own Problems
Subject’s premise is novel and has potential, but for all the film’s discussion of ethics, it has its own failings.
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The Ghostly Afterlives of Cinema
Pictures of Ghosts is concerned not just with how cinema makes memory tangible, but also how we historically have interacted with it.
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The Best Experimental Shorts at the New York Film Festival
The festival’s Currents program deserves praise for its selection of risk-taking films.
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Five Video Essays That Go Beyond the Surface
With so many to sort through, here are some recommendations for the best recent video essays to check out.
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Hayao Miyazaki Takes a Deeply Personal Turn
The Boy and the Heron is an old man’s look back at a life spent crafting intricate worlds, now offering the tools to do so to the next generation.
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Who Are You, John le Carré?
In The Pigeon Tunnel, documentarian Errol Morris attempts to suss out what makes the famed spy novelist tick.
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The Israeli Filmmakers Who Shoot and Cry
Michal Weits’s Blue Box, in which she grapples with her great-grandfather’s role in the mass displacement of Palestinians, doesn’t go quite far enough.
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Chilean Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán Talks Exile, Trauma, and Revolution
Guzmán sits with Hyperallergic for a conversation about the lost promise of Salvador Allende’s presidency, enduring personal and collective trauma, and the continued possibility for a new revolution.
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Can Memory Ever Be Eternal?
The Eternal Memory draws parallels between a Chilean couple’s struggle with Alzheimer’s and their country’s broader struggle to maintain its history.
