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‘The Encampments’ Review: Timely Doc Covers 2024 U.S. Campus Protests Through the Eyes of the Students
Executive produced by Macklemore, the ground-level film sheds the light on what’s unfolding at Columbia University.
The documentary, which chronicles the encampments at Columbia from the students’ perspective, will hit New York theaters three days after its premiere at CPH:DOX, then expand to Los Angeles a week later. Directors Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker start the film with news media footage that calls the protestors “radical,” “extreme” and “disgusting,” among other provocative terms. Positioned close to the chants and to the loudspeaker proclamations, audiences are transported to the lawns and halls of Columbia, where cameras capture not just the protests but all the other actions that sustained this movement and gave it longevity: the music the students danced to, the food they shared, the poems they read.
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