Written by Krystal Grow “Some people play jazz, some people play reggae or blues. John Coltrane played life.” – Carlos Santana in Chasing Trane John Coltrane’s music was truly larger than life. Complex and innovative, it was full of ideas about the afterlife, about the worlds that exist beyond our own, and […]
Written by Rebecca DeRosa Winter at Westbeth premiered at DOC NYC Wednesday night and proves that the soul of an artist doesn’t age and doesn’t die. Australian director Rohan Spong tells the stories of Edith Stephen, Dudley Williams, and Ilsa Gilbert—three New Yorkers who have resided for decades at Westbeth, an affordable housing […]
Written by Megan Scanlon Life can change in an instant. At any given moment, our worlds can implode. How do we move forward, how can we heal? How do we respond to tragedy, and how does the world respond? Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing investigates these questions as directors Ricki Stern and Annie […]
Written by Kate Hoos Many of us can relate to being caught between two worlds, the old and the new, the past and the present, and the tension between parent and child. Director Diedie Weng explores these dynamics in The Beekeeper and His Son, which made its North American premiere at DOC NYC […]
Written by Megan Scanlon Watching California Typewriter is an immersive experience, and the DOC NYC audience was treated to the film’s NYC premiere last Sunday night. Directed by Doug Nichol, the film is named after a Berkeley, California typewriter repair shop, one of the last vestiges of an analog era, and unfolds the history […]
Written by Rebecca DeRosa In a time when 88 percent of the FDNY was white and male, one woman broke the mold to become the very first openly transgender firefighter of New York City. First Lady of NYC, Chirlane McCray, appeared at the world premiere screening of Woman on Fire, directed by Julie […]
Written by Rebecca DeRosa In The Nine, which premiered at DOC NYC on Monday, photographer turned director Katy Grannan turns the lens on a community of people—many of whom are drug addicts, prostitutes, and victims of abuse—living on South 9th St. (the Nine) in Modesto, California. Kiki (a.k.a. Artimise Fairley), the main […]
Written by Megan Scanlon Power. What is it? What does it look like, how does it move, and how do we know it when we see it? Is power a container that is filled and emptied, shaped and reshaped? What gives power to writing, to music, to art? The NYC premiere of The […]
Written by Kate Hoos Soundbreaking: Stories From the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music is a treat for both serious and casual music fans. But it might be an even bigger delight for gear heads and those who are interested in the ways in which the songs they love were crafted, with an intimate, […]
Written by Whitney Marin James Foley, or Jim as he was best known, was a brother, a son and a friend. Like many of us, Jim tried to find his way in the world, as a teacher, as a writer and ultimately as a journalist. His last approach would take him to the […]