Doug Aitken’s relationship to sounds, whether intentionally placed in his large scale film installations or incorporated within the environment ground this conversation. 

Film Stories

1. The New's Legal Shark

   The famed William Kunstler has been profiled in a film by his daughters; Emily and Sarah Kunstler. Their father represented the prisoners after the overtaking of Attica Prison in 1971, the Chicago “8” and the American Indian Movement during the standoff at Wounded Knee in 1973. 

2. Theme Dioramas in Celluloid

   Frederick Wiseman is one of the most prolific documentarians this country has seen, ever.

3. The New's Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is On the Run

   Video Artist is simulating the flight of the displaced by running 12,756.3 km, the diameter of Earth.

4. The New's Tze Chun

   Tze Chun’s film-making engages personal history, coming-of-age and that life long dream of getting through to the elusive Woody Allen.