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The Reagan Show
Comprised entirely of archival footage taken during those pre-reality-television years, The Reagan Show looks at how Ronald Reagan redefined the look and feel of what it means to be the POTUS.
Josh Alexander
Sierra Pettengill
Francisco Bello
Pacho Velez
Pacho Velez
Casts & Crew
Ronald Reagan
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Walters
Walter Cronkite
Ted Koppel
Peter Jennings
Sam Donaldson
Also Directed by Sierra Pettengill
Riotsville, USA is an archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.
Sierra Pettengill’s archival films explore the haunting of America’s present by its past. Her new short, The Rifleman (2020, 18 min), is an all-archival excavation of the links between gun culture, the National Rifle Association, and the U.S. Border Patrol across five decades.
An all-archival excavation of the links between gun culture, the National Rifle Association, and the U.S. Border Patrol across five decades.
An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who formed it, the film is narrated by voiceover culled from 30 hours of archival cassette tape interviews over a 45 year period. Artists such as Laurie Anderson, Mike Kelley, Hito Steyerl and David Wojnarowicz walk us through the decades. A formally-experimental and raucously-told chronology composed of rare archival documentation, The Business of Thought... is a reminder of the radical potential of the arts and the importance of collective, cultural spaces.
Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument, Georgia’s Stone Mountain.
Also Directed by Pacho Velez
A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.
Amid the aftershocks of socialism's failure, a skeptical American watches three Croatian anarchists fight to create a new leftism.
This film uses the Reagan administration's internal documentation to capture the surreal spectacle of American might at its apex.
Yoni Brook and Pacho Velez's Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt presents New York City in a single-shot (from above) microcosm as an everyman struggles to enter the subway, a droll take on human-versus-machine.
A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions or individuals since 1989 and are now scattered across the USA. Cherished or abandoned, they have become silent witnesses to recent history.
Drivers, mechanics and drag racing fans stare at the objects they love.
The Starting Line captures the rhythms of a day at the Tijuana border crossing. But it’s not just any day: as people go through their routines, they listen to the local news report on Donald Trump’s inauguration. By taking the usual viewpoint—American broadcasters talking about life on the Mexican border—and flipping it on its head, The Starting Line presents an unexpected view of America’s capitol, as it appears from just over the border.
Drawing on over seventy-five encounters with New Yorkers of different ages, races, genders, and sexual interests, The Browsers is a portrait of The Big Apple as seen through the eyes of lovers, searching the web for their special someone.