Hands That Frame Us: Documentary as Collage
Category: Event Calendar
Dates and Times
- Thursday, Apr 2, 2026 6pm - 8pm
- Thursday, Apr 9, 2026 6pm - 8pm
Location
ASU Mix Center
50 N Centennial Way
Details
Join The Sidney Poitier New American Film School for a pair of documentary film screenings curated by Professor Nita Blum-Reddick. Together, these films explore cinema as a practice shaped by the hands that hold the camera—and, in turn, shape how we see one another. In “The Gleaners & I,” screening April 2, Agnès Varda offers a distinctly unified essayistic perspective, unfolding through a series of vignettes that follow people across France as they rummage through overlooked or discarded objects, gathering fragments of everyday life. “Cameraperson,” screening April 9, similarly assembles moments from across the filmmaker’s career into a collage of vignettes, creating meaning through the accumulation of encounters, gestures and observations. Seen together, the films illuminate how documentary meaning emerges through curation, juxtaposition and ethical attention—revealing interconnection not through a single narrative line, but through the relationships formed between images, encounters and acts of looking.
