Susan Morris

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The New York Film Festival 2022: Building-Centric Films

This year’s New York Film Festival, the 60th, featured films that used architecture, design, urbanism and landscape architecture as a key storytelling devices.

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Architecture & Design Film Festival 2022: Design

The design films of the 2022 Architecture & Design Film Festival NY edition.

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Architecture & Design Film Festival 2022: Architecture

The architecture films of the 2022 Architecture & Design Film Festival NY edition.

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Four Film Festivals Address Home

Film festivals SXSW, Doc Fortnight, Full Frame, and New Directors/New Films 2022 address the theme of home.

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Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith: Flowers, Poetry, and Light

A review of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith: Flowers, Poetry, and Light at Selby Gardens.

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Documentaries at DOC NYC and Architecture & Design Film Festival

Documentary films were in full flourish with the DOC NYC film festival, which ran back-to-back with the Architecture & Design Film Festival.

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2021 New York + Toronto Film Festivals

A review of the 2021 New York + Toronto Film Festivals from Susan Morris.

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Tribeca, Sheffield Documentary, and Sunny Side of the Doc Film Festivals

A recent crop of film festivals — Tribeca Festival (U.S.), Sheffield Documentary Festival (U.K.), and Sunny Side of the Docs (France) — showcased films that rambled through cities, making us aware of the physical …

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Observed at Hot Docs 2021

The Hot Docs Film Festival from Canada is the largest documentary festival in North America screening over 200 international films.

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Design + Architecture at SXSW

Susan Morris rounds up the design and architecture films at SXSW, including The Queens Gambit, Mau, Lily Topples the World, and Them.

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Design+ at Sundance, Slamdance, and the NYFF

One of the conveniences of the pandemic has been the ability to watch film festivals from the comfort of home — no waiting in queues, no schlepping in the snow, no talking in the audience.

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Utopias at the Architecture & Design Film Festival

The surprising trend in this year’s Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) was Utopias.