It remains an extraordinarily compelling documentary about one of the pieces of detritus of American culture.
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Blake Williams interviews Charlie Tyrell, one half of the directing team behind The AI Doc (or How I Became An Apocaloptimist) about the filmmaking process, apocaloptimism, and creative balance.
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Patricia Gillespie’s documentary aims to expose the insidious nature of unchecked mental illness at its most extreme, and for the most part she succeeds. #SKYKING is a tough watch but it is a rewarding one.
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At SXSW, Hyperreal’s Hannah Dubbe had the opportunity to sit down with Ayden Mayeri to talk about her documentary Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story, the album, baby-boomers, and future plans for X-Cetra.
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Jon Bois' documentaries often come close to scratching that itch for me. Through the use of charts, graphs, Google Earth satellite imagery, newspaper clippings, and the very occasional photo or brief footage, Bois and his collaborators stitch disparate lives into a grand narrative that means so much more than it seems.
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What begins as a seemingly straightforward documentary about a popular show and its known controversies evolves into a complex examination of the show’s cultural affect, bound inextricably with Osit’s personal experiences.
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Searching for Satyrus gracefully threads together larger social issues like climate change and ethnic conflicts with a deeply resonant story of family and legacy.
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Based on his own autobiography and narrated entirely by Evans himself, The Kid Stays in the Picture is about as far from enlightening about what a producer does, or even what Evans himself did, as possible.
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Death is an inevitability, Alexis Franco affirms in his documentary Donde Los Árboles Dan Carne (Where the Trees Bear Meat). Shown during Austin Film Society’s annual Doc Days, Franco’s film is an intimately quiet portrait of the modern Argentine gaucho shaped by the slow destruction of climate change.
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Over seven years and multiple visits, Singh filmed the documentary And, Towards Happy Alleys, which screened in April as part of Austin’s 2025 Indie Meme Festival. It’s electric.
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Cristina Costantini’s Sally is a welcome highlight among the documentaries of SXSW ‘25.
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Though director Max Hey is focused and dialed in from the moment the documentary begins, Now! More! Yes! ultimately meanders around with its subject without inspiring much interest.
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Each year, Austin Film Society brings the best of nonfiction cinema from across the world to our city for the annual Doc Days film festival.
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The Python Hunt expertly delivers on its promises of humor and human interest.
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Filmmaker Elaine Epstein on her SXSW premiere of Arrest the Midwife, a documentary on the plight of three midwives in the Northeast.
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Despite the occasional lapse in focus, Spreadsheet Champions offers a fascinating look at an under-discussed subculture.
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We sat down with Norita producers Sarah Schoellkopf and Melissa Daniels to discuss their connection to Nora Cortiñas and the feminist message at the heart of the film.
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Central Park (1989) and Canal Zone (1977), point especially to his knack for keen sound design and editing. Both restorations demonstrate Frederick Wiseman’s deliberate choices for aural transitions and building an immersive and rich soundscape that helps fill out the impressive scope of both projects.
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Alan Swyer, director of the documentary When Houston Had the Blues, shares more about his work to tell the largely untold story of a vibrant and rich American music scene in Houston, Texas.
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Frederick Wiseman's documentaries The Store and Law and Order highlight different stages of sociopolitical change, through plainly depicting his subjects with as little interpretive framework as possible.
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