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Penny Lane

Alex Heeney / February 1, 2016

Penny Lane on NUTS!: a gullible audience

Penny Lane talked to us about the importance of pacing in the film, why they used animated re-enactments, and how to think about documentary film.

Wiseman Jackson Heights

Alex Heeney / November 20, 2015

Wiseman talks making In Jackson Heights

Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman discusses his editing process and how this informs how he shot In Jackson Heights.

Alex Heeney / August 23, 2015

Director Hubert Sauper talks We Come As Friends

Hubert Sauper discusses making his film We Come as Friends, creative nonfiction cinema, and the geography of colonialism. This is an excerpt from the ebook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1.

National Gallery

Alex Heeney / December 15, 2014

Frederick Wiseman on his new film National Gallery

His latest film, “National Gallery,” which premiered in the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in May, takes a look at the inner-workings of London’s renowned art museum. The film is a fascinating look at one of the greatest art museums in the world, its role in the community, and how the paintings it houses continue to speak to us.

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