Eric Hynes is Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, where he oversees the annual First Look Festival. He is also a longtime critic and journalist and writes a column on the art of nonfiction for Film Comment magazine. Other outlets have included the New York Times, the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Slate, New York magazine, Sight & Sound, the Village Voice, and Reverse Shot, where he has been a staff writer since 2003.
The Expansive, Inexhaustible Curiosity of Julia Reichert
“A living master of observational filmmaking, Reichert’s cinema asserts that observation needn’t imply lack of participation,” writes film curator and Film Comment columnist Eric Hynes. “It’s a cinema of attending to what matters, of attendance as assertion of what matters.” In advance of his February 29 dialogue with the documentarian, he shares his perspective on Julia Reichert’s five decades of filmmaking.