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New York Film Festival Plays Long Game With Supersized Documentaries
The New York Film Festival is showcasing several very lengthy documentaries, including the 14-hour-long 'exergue,' directed by Dimitris Athyridis.
Exergue, which premiered at the Berlinale in February before playing at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece, explores the 14 th iteration of Documenta, the quinquennial event that is considered the most important contemporary art exhibition in the world. Holding its world premiere this Wednesday is Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury, about Sara Jane Moore, the woman who in 1975, “took a revolver out of her purse and fired two shots at President Gerald Ford on a crowded sidewalk in San Francisco’s Union Square,” as the festival program notes. While Suburban Fury takes place in San Francisco, one of the documentaries in the NYFF lineup is set much closer to home base: Union, directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing.
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