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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

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Filmworker (2017)

Documentation, documentary film

After his performance as "Lord Bullingdon" in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, actor Leon Vitali gave up his career to become Kubrick’s personal assistant. For more than two decades Vitali played a crucial role behind-the-scenes helping Kubrick make and maintain his body of work. In Filmworker, Vitali’s experiences with Kubrick are brought together with previously unseen photos, videos, letters, notebooks and memos from his private collection.

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Monk in Pieces (2025)

Biographical documentary

The film posits that Meredith Monk – composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist – is one of the great artistic pioneers of the modern era, yet her profound cultural influence is largely unrecognized. Monk in Pieces takes the form of a mosaic, mirroring the structure of Monk’s own work as it explores her vocabulary of sound and imagery. As a female artist in the male-dominated downtown arts scene of the 1960s and ‘70s, Monk had to fight for recognition and resources.

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Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (2017)

documentary film

The film shows Cohen on a spring 1972 tour of Europe and Israel, accompanied by two guitarists; a bass and fiddle player; Bob Johnston, a record producer, and backup singers Donna Washburn and Jennifer Warnes. It begins toward the end of the tour in Tel Aviv, and shows Cohen scolding aggressive security guards during a fan riot. Considerable technical problems plagued Cohen throughout the tour, including constant audio difficulties that resulted in a tense confrontation with fans in Copenhagen who wanted a refund because the show ended early.

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