Sierra Pettengill

Un documental de archivo sobre la respuesta del ejército de EE. UU. a las injusticias políticas y raciales de finales de la década de 1960: tomar una base militar, construir un escenario simulado en el centro de la ciudad, enviar soldados para que interpreten a los alborotadores, incendiar el lugar y filmarlo todo.

An all-archival excavation of the links between gun culture, the National Rifle Association, and the U.S. Border Patrol across five decades.

An all-archival excavation of the links between gun culture, the National Rifle Association, and the U.S. Border Patrol across five decades.

An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who formed it, the film is narrated by voiceover culled from 30 hours of archival cassette tape interviews over a 45 year period. Artists such as Laurie Anderson, Mike Kelley, Hito Steyerl and David Wojnarowicz walk us through the decades. A formally-experimental and raucously-told chronology composed of rare archival documentation, The Business of Thought... is a reminder of the radical potential of the arts and the importance of collective, cultural spaces.

Este documental se centra en la lucha de las minorías de Nueva Escocia contra funcionarios de la Administración por los efectos letales de los residuos industriales.

Durante más de treinta años, y a través de su programa de televisión, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), presentador, productor, escritor y pianista, acompañado por sus marionetas y sus muchos amigos, habló directamente a los niños pequeños sobre algunos de los temas más importantes de la vida.

Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument, Georgia’s Stone Mountain.

Comprised entirely of archival footage taken during those pre-reality-television years, The Reagan Show looks at how Ronald Reagan redefined the look and feel of what it means to be the POTUS.

Comprised entirely of archival footage taken during those pre-reality-television years, The Reagan Show looks at how Ronald Reagan redefined the look and feel of what it means to be the POTUS.

Made in 1977 for German public television, a rare look at Harun Farocki’s films for children. Harun Farocki's twin daughters, Lara and Anna were also shown in this documentary.

This film uses the Reagan administration's internal documentation to capture the surreal spectacle of American might at its apex.

The poetics of repetition, as embodied by a South Brooklyn motel room. An experimental film by Sierra Pettengill, with poetry by Michael C. Peterson, for the Book Motel at MoMA P.S. 1.

Esta sincera historia de amor neoyorquina explora los caóticos 40 años de matrimonio del famoso pintor Ushio Shinohara y su esposa, Noriko. Ansiosa por dejar de lado su papel de asistente de su autoritario marido, Noriko busca una identidad propia.

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United States.

BAD BLOOD chronicles how a "miracle" treatment for hemophilia became an agent of death for 10,000 Americans.

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.

Witness the rise of the right wing Tea Party movement through an intimate portrait of two local Pennsylvania leaders.