Frederick Wiseman's films often have the texture of old memories—the ones that resurface, only partially recognizable, in dreams.
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Jonathon Atkinson's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in n+1, Asymptote, and New Ohio Review. He lives in Petaluma, California.
Describing News from Home’s distinct quality of attention stumps me every time I watch, but I would like to look at what’s before me in the way Akerman does, equanimous in the face of all that vacancy and rush. I would like to look and go on looking with that degree of alertness.
I so badly want what Ursula Le Guin once called for—stories that allow for the discernment of other ways of being, and which imagine grounds for hope.