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American Factory

Julia Reichert, American Factory, 2019. Image courtesy Netflix.

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Winner of Best Documentary at the 2020 Academy Awards.

In an abandoned General Motors plant in rural Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new auto-glass factory. Highlighting the relationships and conflicts between highly skilled Chinese technicians and formerly unemployed American auto workers, the filmmakers examine the complex future of labor in the United States. 2019, DCP, 115 min.

Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film is organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and curated by Wexner Center Director of Film/Video David Filipi. Special thanks to Chicken & Egg Pictures for its support.

The Walker’s Dialogue and Retrospective program is made possible by generous support from Anita Kunin and the Kunin Family.

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"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. 

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