June 1, 2023 · 12:01 PM
The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>June 7:
In Theatres
SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS)
Sundance 2023
Director:
Anton Corbijn
About:
An inside look at the studio responsible for some of the most iconic and recognizable album covers of all time. From Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon to Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, the studio ruled the ’70s.
>June 9:
In Theatres
USERS
Sundance 2021
Director:
Natalia Almada
About:
A thought-provoking essay about the unexpected consequences of our dependence on technology.
>June 13:
On DVD/VOD
NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV
Sundance 2023
Director:
Amanda Kim
About:
The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an artistic canvas and prophesied both the fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding that would arise from the interconnected metaverse of today’s world.
>June 15:
Streaming: OVID
MERU
Sundance 2015
Director:
Jimmy Chin, E Chai Vasarhelyi
About:
Three elite mountain climbers sacrifice everything but their friendship as they struggle through heartbreaking loss and nature’s harshest elements to attempt the never-before-completed Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru, the most coveted first ascent in the dangerous game of Himalayan big wall climbing.
>June 21:
Streaming: Max
THE STROLL
Sundance 2023
Director:
Kristen Lovell, Zackary Drucker
About:
The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.
