Editing

Nels Bangerter

Born January 1, 1978 · Oakland, California (age 48)

Nels Bangerter is an award-winning documentary film editor known for finding original and effective approaches to form and structure. His widely-acclaimed work includes CAMERAPERSON, the through-the-viewfinder memoir of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson; 32 SOUNDS, a film and live-performance documentary exploration of sonic experience; LET THE FIRE BURN, an all-archival examination of t…

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Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is LostStiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost · 2025
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
★ 6.52025
MovieDocumentary
Ben Stiller tells the story of his parents—comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara—exploring their impact on popular culture and at home, where the lines between creativity, family, life, and art often blurred.
Apocalypse in the TropicsApocalypse in the Tropics · 2025
Apocalypse in the Tropics
★ 7.32025
MovieDocumentary
Through deep examination, this documentary from Oscar nominee Petra Costa explores the profound impact of evangelism on Brazil's political landscape.
Riotsville, USARiotsville, USA · 2022
Riotsville, USA
★ 5.62022
MovieDocumentaryHistory
An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.
Dick Johnson Is DeadDick Johnson Is Dead · 2020
Dick Johnson Is Dead
★ 7.12020
MovieDocumentary
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
CamerapersonCameraperson · 2016
Cameraperson
★ 6.72016
MovieDocumentary
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
32 Sounds32 Sounds · 2023
32 Sounds
★ 6.22023
MovieDocumentary
Explores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
The AboveThe Above · 2015
The Above
★ 6.52015
MovieDocumentary
A U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
Buzkashi BoysBuzkashi Boys · 2012
Buzkashi Boys
★ 6.42012
MovieDrama
Set against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the National sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat - Buzkashi Boys tells the coming of age story of two best friends, a charismatic street urchin and a defiant blacksmith's son, who struggle to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth. Shot on location in Kabul city by an alliance of Afghan and international film makers, Buzkashi Boys is a look at the life that continues beyond the headlines of war in Afghanistan.

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