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Alexis Haut|Cinema
‘The creativity just blooms’: “Sing Sing” production designer Ruta Kiskyte on making art with formerly incarcerated cast in a decommissioned prison
Sing Sing is a movie that takes place in a prison, but it’s not a prison movie.

Jessica Helfand|Interviews
Josef Koudelka, Next: A Visual Biography: Ten Questions for Melissa Harris
“It was essential that I humanize Koudelka and extricate him from the more reductive and pedestaled realm of myth where so many position him," says Harris.

Susan Morris|Reviews
DOC NYC: Music
A welcome clutch of films about women in music were shown at DOC NYC 2024.

Susan Morris|Reviews
DOC NYC: Art + Illness
DOC NYC featured films about making art, and art intersecting with illness.

Susan Morris|Reviews
DOC NYC: Profiles
Profiles of artists abounded at DOC NYC.

Susan Morris|Reviews
2023 New York Film Festival: Buildings
At the 2023 New York Film Festival (NYFF) there were films that featured significant buildings used in unexpected ways.
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