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Kelly Reichardt on Power, Hierarchy and Hubris in the U.S.: ‘The American Story Keeps Repeating Itself’

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“The American story keeps repeating itself,” U.S. filmmaker Kelly Reichardt told the audience of her masterclass Tuesday at Visions du Réel, a documentary film festival in Nyon, Switzerland. During an onstage conversation that is part of a wider tribute to the director, Reichardt was asked whether she is rewriting the American myth through her films. She instead framed her work as a shift in perspective: “I don’t feel schooled enough to be rew…

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On Tuesday in Nyon, the master class of the discreet but influential American independent filmmaker raised only a corner of the veil that still covers its mysterious originalityThe desire for fiction is a somewhat theorized part of documentary cinema, no doubt as strong as the need for real fiction. One can see at Visions du Réel, the Nyon documentary film festival, which recently began to devote retrospectives and master class also to authors a…

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