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1 week ago | 
globalcomment.com | Lauren Wissot
Even if you’re not familiar with the experimental art/music groups Throbbing Gristle or Psychic TV, the synopsis for David Charles Rodrigues’s S/He is Still Her/e – The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary makes a one of a kind case for viewing: “Featuring William Burroughs, Brion Gyson, Timothy Leary, Alice Genese (Psychic TV), David J (Bauhaus/Love and Rockets), Nepalese monks, African witch doctors, and a special cameo by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.” Indeed, the film – which debuted at...
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2 weeks ago | 
indiewire.com | Lauren Wissot
It’s heartbreakingly ironic that, as Vladimir Putin continues his messianic battle to wipe Ukraine from the map, the country’s documentarians are fighting back the one way they know how — by creating films that seem to just get better and better with every bomb dropped. Simply put, what began for many as a way to keep track of war crimes has now transformed into nothing less than a new way of seeing.
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3 weeks ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 17, 2025 Cannes Film Festival 2025, I Only Rest In The Storm, Pedro Pinho Pedro Pinho’s Cannes-premiering I Only Rest In The Storm follows Sergio, a naive do-gooder who, as the film’s title implies, finds inner peace in places of chaos.
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3 weeks ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 17, 2025 A Useful Ghost, Cannes Film Festival 2025, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Cannes-premiering A Useful Ghost is a multilayered cinematic extravaganza (and feat) that manages to seamlessly combine several deep themes: toxic pollution, soulless capitalism, the perils of prioritizing self-interest over the good of the community, and the beauty of unconventional romantic relationships.
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3 weeks ago | 
hammertonail.com | Lauren Wissot
(Check out Lauren Wissot’s Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted movie review. The film hit theaters in L.A. and NY May9 and will make it’s way across the U.S. soon. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson’s Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Paintedstars three aging musicians living the good life in a San Fernando Valley bachelor pad (with a rundown pool in need of painting).
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1 month ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 2, 2025 Documentary, Isaac Gale, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson’s Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted is a gonzo doc that perfectly reflects its trio of carpe diem stars — fun-loving musicians who reside in a bachelor pad in the hedonistic San Fernando Valley (aka the capital of porn).
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1 month ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection Everything You Have is Yours by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 2, 2025 DCTV, Documentary, Everything You Have Is Yours, Tatyana Tenenbaum’ Tatyana Tenenbaum’s Everything You Have Is Yours centers on NYC-based choreographer Hadar Ahuvia, specifically her coming to terms, through her chosen art form, with the colonialism and cultural appropriation that birthed the Israeli folk dances she was raised on in Hawaii (by way of Israel/Palestine) and which she still...
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1 month ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 1, 2025 Documentary, Hot Docs 2025, We Live Here, Zhanana Kurmasheva “Some places on Earth carry a weight that is almost impossible to put into words” is how Zhanana Kurmasheva puts it in her director’s statement for We Live Here, which world-premiered at CPH:DOX and next screens in the World Showcase section at Hot Docs.
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1 month ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection Free for All: Inside the Public Library by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on Apr 29, 2025 Dawn Logsdon, Documentary, Free for All: Inside the Public Library, Independent Lens, Lucie Faulknor Nearly 12 years in the making, Lucie Faulknor and Dawn Logsdon’s Free for All: Inside the Public Library is a heartfelt journey into the history of an institution that went from a radical idea (the “Free Library Movement”), to an entity taken for granted, to a present-day site of...
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1 month ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on Apr 28, 2025 Documentary, Hot Docs 2025, Maya Hawke, Rebecca Adorno-Dávila, River of Grass, Sasha Wortzel, Todd Chandler, True/False Film Fest 2025 “Nature will always win in the end,” notes Native American environmental activist Betty Osceola, one of several intriguing characters, human and not, that star in River of Grass, Sasha Wortzel’s highly personal love letter to a region both she and the Miccosukee tribal member call...
