A Camera That Goes Anywhere: American Cinema Verité

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A Camera That Goes Anywhere: American Cinema Verité

Saturday, October 31, 2026
Free
Cinema verité, or direct cinema, was a game-changing documentary movement created in large part by a handful of innovative young filmmakers in the late 1950s.

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