Alex Ross Perry

The Cathedral

An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.

The Sky Is Clear and Blue Today

An American director, hired by German television to make a film about 9/11, re-stages a controversial photograph taken along the Brooklyn waterfront soon after the collapse of the World Trade Center.

Notes on an Appearance

A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.

Spiral Jetty

An applauded New York intellectual hires a young archivist to whitewash her late psychologist father's reputation by eliminating a forbidding, potentially incriminating paper trail.

Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday

An American art collector’s estate plans to build a glass house that will permanently memorialize the collector’s many prints and paintings. The spot selected—several acres of undeveloped parkland in upstate New York—was the site of a young woman’s murder, the circumstances of which have been exploited for political purposes by the founder of a far-right populist party called National Advance.

Bruno Dumont

The director of "Li'l Quinquin" discusses his filmmaking.

Chantal Akerman

Interview with the Belgian director discussing her films from the 1970s and her mother’s influence on her work.

Gina Telaroli

Interview with the director of "Traveling Light" (2011) about her work as a filmmaker, critic, and programmer.

Six Cents in the Pocket

This hypnotic work of contemporary cinematic modernism—something like Robert Bresson in Park Slope, but not exactly—concerns a young man apartment-sitting for friends as talk of a plane crash ominously lingers in the air.

Four Americans

Interview with a group of indie filmmakers—Alexander Carver, Benjamin Crotty, Daniel Schmidt.

Dustin Guy Defa

Interview with Dustin Guy Defa. Recorded in New York City, March 2017.