DOC NYC, the nation’s largest documentary movie pageant, returns this week (November 9–17, 2022), with a lot to attraction to artwork lovers on the now-hybrid occasion, which options in-person screenings in addition to on-line viewings by way of a devoted streaming platform.
That can assist you type by the various choices—there are greater than 110 feature-length documentaries plus over 100 quick movies—now we have 10 films about artwork and artists so as to add to your watch listing.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an early frontrunner for the Academy Award for finest documentary—it already received the Gold Lion on the Venice Movie Pageant, and filmmaker Laura Poitras beforehand earned the honour for 2014’s Citizenfour. It provides a portrait of the artist Nan Goldin, her advocacy group Sackler Prescription Dependancy Intervention Now (Sackler P.A.I.N.), and the hard-fought battle to carry members of the Sackler household accountable for the nation’s opioid epidemic. The efforts of Goldin and her fellow activists resulted within the elimination of the Sackler title from museums around the globe.
Friday, November 11, 9:15 p.m., IFC Heart, 323 sixth Avenue, New York.
Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling
Tempo gallery founder Arne Glimcher is without doubt one of the producer for this celebration of Robert Irwin, the painter-turned-creator of experimental installations. Filmmaker Jennifer Lane takes a philosophical and conceptual journey by the artist’s modern profession, characterised by his creative use of sunshine and area, starting from early work experimenting with biofeedback, to the everlasting immersive set up he inbuilt Marfa, Texas, in 2016.
Saturday, November 12, 1:15 p.m., SVA Theatre, 333 West twenty third Road, New York.
Streaming, Sunday, November 13–Sunday, November 27.
Fragments of Paradise
Jonas Mekas in Fragments of Paradise. Picture courtesy of Kunhardt Movies.
Followers of avant-garde cinema know Jonas Mekas, the artist, filmmaker, and founding father of New York’s Anthology Movie Archive, who died in 2019 at age 96. Now, filmmaker KD Davison mines Mekas’s personal footage, together with diary movies—some never-before-seen—to color an image of his necessary position within the historical past of cinema. The documentary’s title comes from Mekas’s personal description of movies as “fragments of paradise,” and the film eschews a extra straight-forward biographical strategy to his life story in favor of 1 that’s directly extra intimate and piecemeal.
Saturday, November 12, 9:40 p.m., SVA Theatre, 333 West twenty third Road, New York.
Streaming, Sunday, November 13 and Monday, November 14.
For Your Peace of Mind, Make Your Own Museum
It’s the U.S. premiere of this tribute to Senobia, a Panamanian folks artist who railed in opposition to her village’s patriarchal underpinnings to show her dwelling into what she dubbed the “Museum of Antiquities of All Species.” Her associates recall the inventive spirit of this self-taught visionary whereas sitting in her kitchen, surrounded by her artwork and writings.
Thursday, November 17, 1:15 p.m., Cinépolis Chelsea, Theater 1, 260 West twenty third Road, New York.
Streaming, Friday, November 11–Sunday, November 27.
Kobra Self Portrait (Kobra Auto Retrato)
Brazilian road artist Eduardo Kobra grew up on the outskirts of São Paolo, however his kaleidoscopic murals can now be seen in additional than 30 nations all around the world, together with 50 items in New York Metropolis alone. Filmmaker Lina Chamie explores how Kobra’s work responds to the violence he skilled rising up in Brazil, turning road artwork right into a software to foster democracy and peace, addressing such urgent points as racism, environmental destruction, and gun violence.
Sunday, November 13, 4:45 p.m., and Monday, November 14, 2:15 p.m., IFC Heart, 323 sixth Avenue, New York.
Streaming, Monday, November 14–Sunday, November 27.
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Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story
Corky Lee in Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story.
In 2003, director Jennifer Takaki met photographer Corky Lee, who died in January 2021, and she or he spent the subsequent twenty years following his career, which documented Asian American Pacific Islanders. His pictures captured not solely each day life and cultural celebrations, but in addition moments that impressed Asian American activism, from police brutality in Chinatown in a 1975 cowl picture for the New York Publish, to discrimination in opposition to Sikhs and Filipinos after 9/11 and the Chinese language throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Premiering at DOC NYC, the movie seems to be to proceed Lee’s efforts to make use of his digital camera as a “weapon in opposition to injustice” in response to the rising tide of violence in opposition to Asian People.
Saturday, November 12, 1 p.m., SVA Theatre, 333 West twenty third Road, New York; and Thursday, November 17, 1:15 p.m., Cinépolis Chelsea, Theater 2, 260 West twenty third Road, New York.
Streaming, Sunday, November 13–Sunday, November 27.
Master of Light
Artwork has been a robust pressure within the lifetime of George Anthony Morton, a self-taught artist who works within the classical custom. This documentary from Rosa Ruth Boesten follows Morton as he returns dwelling to Kansas Metropolis after 10 years behind bars on drug prices. As he seems to be to restore a broken relationship along with his mom, Morton additionally turns to artwork, visiting the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and evaluating Dutch Previous Grasp realism with African artwork, as he seems to be to determine knowledgeable artwork profession of his personal.
Friday, November 11, 9:30 p.m., SVA Theatre, 333 West twenty third Road, New York.
Streaming, Saturday, November 12 and Sunday, November 13.
The Art of Rebellion
This film follows Lydia Emily, a Los Angeles muralist and trainer, as she offers with a devastating MS prognosis—and the way its debilitating bodily results and the mounting debt incurred by medical therapies threaten not solely her means to maintain making her artwork, however to offer for her household. As her motor abilities deteriorate, Emily actually ties her brushes to her palms, decided to nonetheless carry her inventive visions to life. It’s a portrait of a fearless artist devoted to activism, but in addition of our dysfunctional healthcare system.
Sunday, November 13, 6 p.m., Tuesday, November 15, 12:15 p.m., Cinépolis Chelsea, Theater 3, 260 West twenty third Road, New York.
Streaming, Monday, November 14–Sunday, November 27.
Moonage Daydream
Six years after his sudden loss of life, what’s left to say about David Bowie, the beloved musician, painter, actor, and artwork collector? Loads in this film, which options uncommon footage of reside performances in addition to interviews with the person himself over the a long time, explaining his multifaceted artistry in his personal phrases.
Friday, November 11, 9:55 p.m., Cinépolis Chelsea, 260 West twenty third Road, New York.
Radical Landscapes
Florentine filmmaker Elettra Fiumi knew nothing of the position her father, Fabrizio Fiumi, had within the Italian metropolis’s radical structure of the Nineteen Sixties till after his loss of life. That was when she performed some outdated Tremendous 8 reels and found footage of what gave the impression to be orgies. This film, drawing on her father’s archives, explores his profession and the influence of his avant-garde structure collective, the 9999, in addition to his founding of the Florence Movie Pageant.
Sunday, November 13, 1:15 p.m., Monday, November 14, 9:30 p.m., Cinépolis Chelsea, Theater 6 and a pair of, `260 West twenty third Road, New York.
Streaming, Monday, November 14–Sunday, November 27.
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