An Evening with the New York Times’ Op-Docs 2025

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

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Tuesday, December 2 at 6:30: Q&A with the Op-Docs team after the showing

Film title: THEIR EYES
Director: Nicolas Gourault
Country: France
Synopsis: In “Their Eyes,” we’re introduced to the online gig workers who teach the A.I. in self-driving cars how to navigate the streets. While the workers are predominantly in the global south, these kinds of cars are increasingly part of the streets of the global north. “Their Eyes” is an investigation into and exploration of the invisible workers training A.I. systems how to read the world.

Film title: VIEW FROM THE FLOOR
Directors: Megan Griffiths, Mindie Lind
Country: United States
Synopsis: For as long as she can remember, Mindie Lind has been obsessed with performing onstage. Since she was born with no legs, it wasn’t long before news crews, national telethons and even the talk show host Maury Povich arrived to capture Mindie in action, always portraying her simplest activities as inspirational.
“View From the Floor” captures her journey navigating tropes, exploitation and the question of whether she’s talented or typecast, superstar or “supercrip” (a person with a disability who is seen as a superhero for doing everyday things).

Film title: AM I THE SKINNIEST PERSON YOU’VE EVER SEEN?
Director: Eisha Marjara
Country: Canada
Synopsis: For the sisters Eisha and Seema, a joint diet offered a shared sense of purpose. But their project would take a dark turn, and Eisha was eventually consumed by anorexia. In “Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?” Eisha revisits her past with a tender love letter to her younger self and the battle she faced.

Film title: CRYING GLACIER
Director: Lutz Stautner
Country: Switzerland
Synopsis: When Lutz Stautner first heard the artist Ludwig Berger’s recordings of a melting glacier, he could hardly believe they were real. They reflected what Lutz had long associated with glaciers: complexity, excitement, life. By approaching the glacier through sound, by making it seem alive, Ludwig gave him a whole new perspective, not just on climate change caused by humans, but on coexistence. What can we learn by listening?

Film title: DEATH OF A FANTASTIC MACHINE
Directors: Maximilien Van Aertryck, Axel Danielson
Country: France/Sweden
Synopsis: The camera is a tool — but to do what? Images shape our daily life, yet we rarely question how they’re made or why. Here, Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson focus on how economic forces have shaped what we see, from the earliest photography to the algorithms and A.I. of today. Some say there are an estimated 45 billion cameras on earth today, giving humankind access to perspectives far beyond our own reach. But the very tool that could help us understand the world is increasingly used to distort it. With A.I., this distortion has reached a new level. When any photo or video can be manufactured, what happens to the camera’s credibility? Can we still trust what we see? Could we ever?

  • Running Time 65 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor The New York Times Op Docs
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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