Christian Frei Masterclass: Magnification That Will Endure

In association with Restart and Dokukino.

Christian Frei is one of the most influential contemporary documentarians whose bold and truthful films – Blame, Sleepless in New York, War Photographer, Space Tourists, and Genesis 2.0 – bring piercing and intimate portraits of people in extreme situations and cover a broad spectrum of topics that weigh on the fate of humanity, such as war, technology and major social changes. His mosaic work is characterised by a subdued persistence and dedicated immersion in “human tectonics” – from love affairs in the New York metropolis, through the trade in mammoth tusks for cloning to space tourism and a meticulous investigation of the causative agent of the COVID-19 virus. In a masterclass whose name paraphrases Ernest Hemingway's literary credo, Frei will present the key elements that create a documentary that resists the ravages of time and authentically and deeply captures the complex faces and facets of human nature.