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The Great Experiment
Fri, Oct 16: Q&A with co-director Steve Maing, moderated by filmmaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) after 7:15 show!
Sat, Oct 17: Q&A with co-director Steve Maing after 7:15 show!
What holds a people together when the story they tell about themselves begins to fracture? THE GREAT EXPERIMENT is an epic poem in documentary form – a mirror held to an American nation at war with its own reflection, asking not who is right, but whether the experiment itself can survive.
Filmed in striking black and white across the US over four consequential years, from 2017 to 2021, the film considers the results of what George Washington once called “our last great experiment” in democracy.
Additional showtimes for October 16-22 to be announced.
Previously screening as part of DOC NYC Selects: Summer 2026
Hallowarrior
Pumpkin, the last girl on earth and sole survivor of a humanity-ending plague, scavenges the wasteland for supplies on the eve of Halloween. Her lonely holiday ritual is interrupted by the arrival of a savage gang of raiders at her doorstep led by the fearsome Thalia. Outnumbered and armed with candy, wit and weapons, Pumpkin must ferociously fight back to survive the night.
Josephine
JOSEPHINE follows the psychological fallout after eight-year-old Josephine (Reeves) witnesses a brutal crime in Golden Gate Park. As she acts out, her parents (Tatum and Chan) struggle with helping their daughter cope, while facing the moral responsibility of demanding justice in a world that’s lost its innocence.
Fjord (Open Captioning)
Tue, Oct 6: Sneak preview + Q&A with director Cristian Mungiu and co-star Sebastian Stan after the 6:15 show!
Tues, Oct 6: Extended intro with director Cristian Mungiu and co-star Sebastian Stan at the 8:15 show!
Please note that there are additional showtimes of FJORD that screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.
From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close-knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form a fast bond with a neighboring family as unease begins to simmer around their rigid beliefs. When allegations of abuse emerge, they are forced to confront a system of judgment that blurs the line between concern and prejudice.
The Music Lovers
Screening on 35mm!
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.
Screening as part of our series The Gospel According to Ken Russell
Gothic
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron’s lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
Screening as part of our series The Gospel According to Ken Russell
Altered States
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
Screening as part of our series The Gospel According to Ken Russell
Women in Love
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
Screening as part of our series The Gospel According to Ken Russell
The Boy Friend
When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place.
Screening as part of our series The Gospel According to Ken Russell