Documentary Voices

February 5–April 30, 2025

BAMPFA’s annual selection of compelling nonfiction films includes the award-winning Palestinian/Israeli documentary No Other Land, as well as films by Sergei Loznitsa, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, Dana Claxton and the Ishi Collective, and Kevin Jerome Everson.

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  • Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor: No Other Land, 2024

  • Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw: Gaucho, Gaucho, 2024

  • Sergei Loznitsa: Factory, 2004

  • Kevin Jerome Everson: Ten Five in the Grass, 2012

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  • Mosse Lecture: Sergei Loznitsa

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    Wednesday, February 5 7:00 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Deniz Göktürk in Conversation

    Factory showcases Sergei Loznitsa’s approach to nonfiction, working with original camerawork and mining the archives for imagery, with the annual Mosse Lecture.

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  • No Other Land

    Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
    Palestine, Norway, 2024
    Wednesday, February 12 7:00 PM
    Introduced by Ussama Makdisi

    Made over five years by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, No Other Land chronicles the attempts of the inhabitants of Palestinian villages in the West Bank to resist the destruction of their homes and expropriation of their land by the Israeli military.

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  • I Am Ishi: The Performance Art Film

    Dana Claxton
    Canada, 2023
    Wednesday, February 19 7:00 PM
    Introduced by Dmitri Brown

    Drawing from and expanding on James Luna’s ISHI: The Archive Performance, Dana Claxton and members of the Ishi Collective interrogate the legacy of colonial museum practices through the tragic story of the last known survivor of the Yahi people.

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  • Gaucho Gaucho

    Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
    United States, Argentina, 2024
    Wednesday, February 26 7:00 PM
    Introduction by Leila Weefur

    These two films document contemporary cowboy culture on two continents. Gaucho Gaucho chronicles the everyday life of Argentine cowhands, while Ten Five in the Grass captures the preparations for a calf roping event on the Black rodeo circuit.

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