Scene report: The 2025 Cinema Unbound Awards highlight the spirit of Portland
From Nicholas Cage cosplay to zoning lectures with David Byrne, PAM CUT redefines what it means to gather around moving images
Play is protest in ‘Le Grand Calao’
In Zoé Cauwet’s short film, making its US premiere at NYAFF, a womens association's long-awaited day of leisure becomes an act of defiance
‘When you honour me, you honour all the above’: Read Tilda Swinton’s full address from the Berlinale
Receiving a Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, the actor delivered a searing rebuke of global leadership during her...
The horrors of horniness: the freaky girls of ‘Babyratu’
This holiday’s double-bill follows women whose sexuality threatens to undo them
Kiernan Francis’s ‘Champions’ reimagines interior life
The filmmaker visits his family’s Chicago home, presenting an architectural vision of victory with local designers
Harley Chamandy’s ‘Allen Sunshine’ is a meditation on the quiet beauty of nature
The Canadian director unpacks the many dimensions to his Werner Herzog Award-winning feature film
Ena Sendijarević’s cinema of migration and memory
Document sits down with the Bosnian filmmaker to discuss how diaspora shapes her slow cinema-inflected storytelling
Multidisciplinary artist Mickalene Thomas transforms before the lens for her debut as the indomitable model Mickey!
To accompany this exclusive fashion portfolio in Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, Thomas is joined by actor and screenwriter Lena Waithe to unpack the art of...
Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón vitalize narrative potential
The actor and director unfurl the cinematic story for Document Journal’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Jake Gyllenhaal and Hans Ulrich Obrist put language into action
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024-25 issue, the actor and curator discuss the potency of the word on paper, stage, and screen
Poet Precious Okoyomon and artist Olivia McKayla Ross are using time as a creative medium
The pair sit down with Document to discuss the memory work in Okoyomon’s new poetry collection, ‘But Did You Die?’
‘National Anthem’ is a portal into the beauty of queer rural America
Named after his earlier monograph, the debut feature film by photographer Luke Gilford brings the rodeo stars of his book to the big screen
Wedding veils, pan flutes, and the perfect day for a picnic
A deep dive into ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock,’ the 1975 cult film that inspired everyone from Chloë Sevigny to Alexander McQueen and redefined Australian cinema
In ‘Queendom,’ authenticity is resistance
Agniia Galdanova’s documentary showcases art’s radical potential by following Russian performance artist Jenna Marvin
Decoding the ‘it’ factor with Abbey Lee
In an exclusive digital interview for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the cover star details how she found acting and a new sense of creative fulfillment
Saint Laurent cinematic connection comes full circle in Cannes
For the Festival’s 2024 edition, the luxury house-turned-production studio is realizing Anthony Vaccarello’s expansive ambitions on the silver screen
Inside the secret libidinal archive of George Platt Lynes
Director Sam Shahid joins photographer Bruce Weber to discuss the artist’s clandestine homoerotic nudes, documented in his new film ‘Hidden Master’
Viggo Mortensen and Ron Howard see storytelling as an act of collaboration
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the filmmakers ruminate on the transportive power of cinema, the art of interpretation, and the importance of honoring your audience
Isabelle Huppert and Bruce LaBruce capture the profound power of deviance
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the actor and director discuss the cinematic language, fashion, and revolution in their filmographies
Charting a course through Wim Wenders’s filmography
Document drafts a roadmap through the New German Cinema pioneer’s must-see works following remarkable critical reception of his latest film, ‘Perfect Days’
In ‘The Wrong Movie,’ an apartment building and a ring light become metaphors for human connection
Artist and writer Keren Cytter’s feature film debuted at the 74th Berlinale, leaving audiences wondering: did that guy really become a drone?
For Hugo Comte, abstraction is the highest form of flattery
The renowned fashion photographer sits down with Document to discuss love, inspiration, and attitude in his debut film, ‘Purring Metal’
Erin Grant celebrates her New York premiere with a night of cinematic illusions
The actor and directer spotlights genre-bending shorts from New York filmmakers featuring Illuminati P.I.s, a fallen angel, and a not-so-magic rodent
A glimpse through Frederick Wiseman’s enduring lens
Upon the release of his 44th documentary ‘Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros,’ Document curates a list of the filmmaker’s most provocative portraits
‘The Iron Claw’ goes for the emotional jugular
Sean Durkin’s third film renders the Von Erich wrestling family as a American tragedy
‘Gratuity Included’ feasts on the experimental
At the film’s second screening, director and fine artist Paulina Freifeld left audiences at KGB’s theater with one cheeky question: what’s for dinner?
A guide to the discomfiting films of Todd Haynes
Upon the release of May-December, Document curates of list of his most sumptuous, unsettling films
Between love, hate, and richesse, ‘Saltburn’ boils over
In a web of cinephilic homages, Emerald Fennell’s sophomore feature spins a half-baked tale of lust and ambition
Ishmael Reed and Boots Riley on the art of cultural agitation
The novelist and the filmmaker talk Oakland, Basquiat, hip-hop, and propaganda for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue
In ‘Fingernails,’ uncertainty is painful
Christos Nikou’s new film imagines a not-too-distant dystopian future, where love can be certified with a one-off test
Barry Keoghan makes his own luck
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the actor breaks down the art of keeping out of rhythm and seeking comfort in destiny
Down the splinter of human injury with Sandra Hüller and Joachim Trier
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the actor and filmmaker meet to unpack the art of anti-storytelling
‘Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)’ excavates cultural memory
Part documentary, part visual poem, Suneil Sanzgiri’s video installation at the Brooklyn Museum examines colonial resistance across India and Africa
Martine Gutierrez deconstructs the avatar, in conversation with Zackary Drucker
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the artist shares ‘Child Interrupted,’ a portfolio positioning the self as invention
In the confessional with Jodie Foster and David Sedaris
Surveying dialects, dogs, death, and dating, the actor and writer meet for the first time for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue
Tina Kukielski’s guide to the rich, varied films of ‘Art in the Twenty-First Century’
Ahead of the release of “Friends & Strangers,” Art21’s chief curator highlights some of the series’s most fascinating installments
A comprehensive syllabus to ‘Convulsive States’
Following the exhibition’s opening at Pioneer Works, performance artist Liz Magic Laser and curator Gabriel Florenz delineate the words and sounds that shaped it
For Romy and Charlotte Wells, joy and grief are inextricable
The two meet to unravel the act of art-making, comparing the musician’s solo debut against the filmmaker’s first feature
TIFF’s (somewhat) hidden gems
Document took to the juggernaut of the film festival circuit, parsing through its most impressive under-the-radar offerings
‘Bottoms’ flips the script on the teen sex comedy
Emma Seligman’s latest film proves that amidst shifting cultural norms, raunchy flicks still have a place at the box office
Films to hold on to summer
From ‘Do The Right Thing’ to ‘Y Tu Mamá También,’ Document offers a list of films that best embody the season’s spirit
Lee Pace contains multitudes
Hollywood’s most versatile actor joins Document to discuss the complexity of the mind, transcending traditional gender roles, and the characters he never forgot
‘Barbie’ was a great movie—should that worry us?
How a film commissioned by a children’s toy brand become the blockbuster of the summer, and what that means for the future of cinema
The modern German fairytales of Christian Petzold
Following the release of ‘Afire,’ the Berlin School director joins the film’s star, Paula Beer, to consider its elaborate fantasies of work, play, and landscape
The battle for the soul of Hollywood
A dystopian AI proposal raises questions about what happens to creative industries when all but the most recognizable figures are deemed disposable
Mind the gap, #Barbenheimer
Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ and Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ share a release date, and a knack for sparking terminally online debate
Niia and Michael Imperioli philosophize on the generosity of art
For Document, the musician and the actor meet as benefactors of one another’s work, discussing the transcendence born from opening the self
The divine gifts of ‘The Starling Girl’
Upon the streaming release of her debut film, Laurel Parmet sits down with Document to discuss the coexistence of faith and desire
‘Earth Mama’ finds tenderness in solidarity
Ahead of the film’s release, Savanah Leaf joins Document to dissect her A24 feature debut and advocate for fiction’s capacity for truthful storytelling
