Docs in Focus — Blog

Docs in Focus IV—Devotional Realms & Modern Labor

The third installation of Docs in Focus IV focuses on devotional realms and systems of modern labor in countries diverse as India, Austria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine, Nigeria and Bangladesh.

SeriesMay 20, 2022Docs in Focus

Docs in Focus IV—Post-Soviet & Muslim Worlds

During the month of May Filmatique presents its first expanded series of contemporary nonfiction films. The second installation of Docs in Focus IV looks beyond US borders to post-Soviet and Muslim worlds.

SeriesMay 13, 2022Docs in Focus

Docs in Focus IV—American Folklore

During the month of May Filmatique presents its first expanded series of contemporary nonfiction films. The first installation zeroes in on peripheral existence in present-day America.

SeriesMay 8, 2022Docs in Focus

March: Docs in Focus III

A diverse collection of nonfiction works from Finland, Palestine, Syria, Iran, and the United States.

SeriesReid RossmanMarch 5, 2021Docs in Focus

Corporeal Legibility in the Age of Coronavirus—Adina Pintilie's Touch Me Not

In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Head Curator Ursula Grisham assesses the relevance of Adina Pintilie's Touch Me Not amid the current global pandemic, insofar as the film advances a tool unexpectedly appropriate to the moment—touch as a reminder, a mode of relation to our imperfect, precarious, corporeal selves.

EssaysApril 30, 2020Docs in Focus

April: Docs in Focus II

A collection of works by directors working in the vanguard of documentary filmmaking.

SeriesApril 2, 2020Docs in Focus