Like Alexandre O. Philippe, Rodney Ascher is a director who pushes the interpretive limits of what a documentary can do, something he made abundantly clear with his 2012 film Room 237. Named after ...

Ghost Boy contains some of that, being such an unbelievable true story that it’s almost impossible not to wonder how such a thing can happen, and just how many people have been affected by it ...

SXSW Anyone alarmed by that proposition will probably want to give Ascher’s latest film a wide berth, since it tells the story of Martin Pistorius, South African author of the 2011 memoir Ghost Boy: ...

The doc program at SXSW reflects the left-of-center tone of both the festival and the city of Austin. Where else would you find documentaries about The Butthole Surfers and Carl Lewis in the same ...

This year’s show pays elegant, effusively colorful tribute to the Mexican architect Luis Barragán and his signature palette of orange and creamy pink. By Will Heinrich A new exhibition at the ...