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Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Girish Shambu

Past Performance: Reviving Reenactment

By Girish Shambu
March 28, 2022
Run it back: a renewed interest in reenactment in documentary foregrounds two historically sidelined aspects of nonfiction cinema: performance and authorship

A Double Life

By Girish Shambu
August 30, 2017
One hundred years of films about the immigrant experience reveal the split personality of modern living