Susan Morris

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Observed at DOC NYC 2020

Of the more than 200 films at the 2020 DOC NYC festival, the largest documentary film festival in the U.S., films centering on design and the built environment highlighted the themes of obsession, the passage of time, and the city as …

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2023 New York Film Festival: Structures + History

A series of films used structures that had personal resonance for the filmmakers or the characters depicted in the movies.

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Italian Art in the Hudson Valley

Perhaps the biggest surprise of Magazzino Italian Art, the museum and research center dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of postwar and contemporary Italian art in the United States, is that it exists in the …

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Big Art

Big Art is the Liberty Science Center’s first large-scale foray into presenting art at this interactive science museum.

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Sheffield Documentary Festival 2023: Outcasts

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Sundance + Slamdance 2022

This year’s Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals, usually held in Park City, Utah were entirely virtual, and the effects of COVID were felt in the offerings both in overt and subtle ways.

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MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight

This year was the 20th edition of Documentary Fortnight, the Museum of Modern Art’s showcase for innovative non-fiction films.

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DOC NYC: Home + Memory

The notion of home and how is it remembered factored in films from the Middle East, Africa, U.S., Canada, and by immigrants at the DOC NYC film festival.