Editor · 1963

Joe Bini

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13:00: average
39 min: in total

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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Laura Poitras · 2022

Laura Poitras’s 2022 documentary follows photographer and activist Nan Goldin across five decades — from her early portraits of New York’s queer and AIDS-affected communities to her founding of P.A.I.N. and protests against the Sackler family’s role in the opioid crisis. Built almost entirely from Goldin’s own archive and recent footage of museum demonstrations, the film frames art-making and political action as inseparable practices of truth-telling.

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Werner Herzog · 2010

Werner Herzog’s 2010 documentary enters France’s Chauvet Cave — home to the oldest known figurative paintings — under strict access conditions. Shot in 3D by Peter Zeitlinger, the film foregrounds the physical relationship between the Palaeolithic artists and the cave’s contours, with minimal narration and quiet interviews. It avoids archaeological exposition in favour of sensory immersion, treating deep time as atmosphere rather than epoch.

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Grizzly Man

Werner Herzog · 2005

Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary assembles Timothy Treadwell’s own footage, interviews with friends and experts, and his own narration to examine the bear enthusiast’s thirteen years in Alaska and his 2003 death alongside Amie Huguenard. It does not seek to vindicate or condemn, but to trace the logic of a man who believed he had transcended the boundary between human and wild—and what that belief cost.