When does a camera following a woman become a weapon tracking a target?

A few thoughts on Ross McElwee’s Sherman’s March and how one camera movement can embody a whole film’s ideas about male desire and control.

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The documentarian Ross McElwee explores memory and loss in his fine memorial to his late son. Read the review: www.filmreviewdaily.com/new-reviews/... #Remake #RossMcElwee #FilmReview

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Sherman’s March director McElwee revisits footage of his late son for this magnificently affecting film and meditation on making art

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What happens when art and life merge completely—and the life is the thing that gets damaged?

A passage on Ross McElwee’s Six O’Clock News from my forthcoming book Failure Is the Only Subject.

What film made that boundary feel dangerously thin for you?

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