This February installment of Documentary Voices begins with four programs that highlight compelling approaches to documenting different kinds of labor, including the work of truck drivers, cowboys and cowgirls, models, fashion photographers, and a courageous Palestinian photo journalist and poet.
Read full descriptionRiding with three long-haul truck drivers, filmmaker Amy Reid documents their work, observations on the economic importance of trucking, and reflections on being among the few women in the profession. With Katarina Jazbec’s investigation into the work of lashers in the port of Rotterdam.
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Model captures the inner workings of Zoli, a New York fashion modeling agency, and the labor of the statuesque men and women represented there.
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.
Sepidah Farsi’s yearlong conversation with Palestinian poet and photojournalist Fatma Hassona, killed by Israeli airstrike in April 2025, is “a tremendously moving portrait of resistance under siege” (Isaac Feidberg, RogerEbert.com).