Each of Ross McElwee’s deeply personal documentaries is built directly atop a fault line that separates — or connects — the microcosmic and the universal. But few films could be more unsparingly ...

For a director who built a remarkable career around filming his own life — for better or worse, through thick and thin, commenting on it with plenty of wit and wisdom — putting together a movie like ...

After decades spent capturing his own life and loved ones on camera, the veteran docmaker's wrenching new feature considers the meaning of that material in the wake of a terrible bereavement. Fourteen ...

Venice: After a fourteen-year absence, McElwee returns to filmmaking with an affecting tribute to his son’s life that doubles as a reflective, career-spanning culmination of his life’s work. While ...

Ross McElwee’s “Remake” has won the Golden Globes Impact Prize for Documentary at the Venice Film Festival. The prize, presented by Artemis Rising Foundation, honors a documentary feature film in ...

Long before the video diary became the en vogue format of personal expression on YouTube and social media platforms like TikTok, Ross McElwee was America's preeminent first-person filmmaker. While ...

Before practically everybody walked around with a video-recording device in their pocket, home movies had a curious sort of formality to them. They were, more often than not, scrappily filmed and ...