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Ex Libris: New York Public Library (2017)

Frederick Wiseman 

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High School (1968) dir. Frederick Wiseman

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Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967)

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Frederick Wiseman - Juvenile Court (1973)

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Hospital (1970), Frederick Wiseman.

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Frederick Wiseman, prolific documentary film-maker, dies aged 96

Recognised with an honorary Academy Award in 2016, Wiseman directed and produced almost 50 films with a lifelong commitment to curiosity and

“For nearly six decades, Frederick Wiseman created an unparalleled body of work, a sweeping cinematic record of contemporary social institutions and ordinary human experience primarily in the United States and France,” the statement read. “His films – from Titicut Follies (1967) to his most recent work, Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023) – are celebrated for their complexity, narrative power and humanist gaze.”

Wiseman, whose extraordinary career was recognised with an honorary Academy Award in 2016, directed and produced almost 50 films, including City Hall (2020), about Boston’s city government; Ex Libris (2017), about the New York Public Library; and In Jackson Heights (2015), about a neighbourhood in the New York borough of Queens.

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Talking about his approach to choosing subject matter, Wiseman said in 2016: “Each film is also an opportunity, an opportunity to learn something about a new subject. I’ve been involved in a 50-year course in adult education where I’m the alleged adult who studies a new subject every year.

“The variety and complexity of the human behaviour observed in making one of the films, and cumulatively, all of the films is staggering, and I think it is important to document kindness, civility and generosity of spirit as it is to show cruelty, banality and indifference.”

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Frederick Wiseman (1930-2026)

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(image: Frederick Wiseman, 1977. Photograph: © Ray Lussier)