Round 7: Tossup 20

This filmmaker was the only director of the TV docuseries Cinema of Our Times to discuss their own films instead of profiling another director. A four-minute shot of a tree swaying in the wind opens the final film by this director of the Soviet Bloc travelogue From the East. After moving (15[1])abroad at age 21, this director stole money while working as a porno theatre usher to fund the films The Room and Hotel Monterey, which began (15[1])this director’s collaboration with the DOP Babette Mangolte (“mawn-GOLT”). A BlackBerry was used to shoot footage for this director’s posthumously-released (*) No Home Movie. Structuralist techniques inspired a documentary by this filmmaker in which letters from this director’s mother are read over long takes depicting 1970s Manhattan. This director’s travels inspired the films News from Home and The Meetings of Anna. For 10 points, what documentarian placed in the top spot of the 2022 Sight and Sound critics’ poll for her narrative feature about Jeanne Dielman? ■END■

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