NOVEMBER: Pushing boundaries

Exile Room takes it upon itself to overturn everything you’ve ever known about documentary with two films that challenge the aesthetics and narrative boundaries of the genre.

When I Will Be Dictator

A diffraction of the autobiography using family footage filmed between the 1940s and today, this “science fiction documentary” creates multiple “I”s and transcends a story of mourning.
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Manakamana

Since the 17th Century, the Manakamana Temple in Nepal has been a popular place of Hindu worship. But instead of yet another conventional documentary with an exotic backdrop, this is a new and challenging experiment courtesy of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Laboratory.

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