{"title": "Screening of “Death & Taxes” with Filmmaker Justin Schein", "start": "2026-11-08T06:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Temple Emanuel", "address": "Benedict Avenue 2000, 10462", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/inequality"], "description": "A screening and discussion of the documentary Death & Taxes. Director Justin Schein, who has made character-driven documentaries for more than 30 years, joins the event. 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Through a journey across countries, buildings, archives, and memories, it explores the life and work of one of the 20th century's most influential architects and the son's complex relationship with the father he came to know through his work. 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The program ranges from Les Blank watching Werner Herzog drag a ship over a mountain and Chris Marker capturing Akira Kurosawa burning down a castle, to Claire Denis observing Jacques Rivette on the Metro and St. Claire Bourne following the making of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. Chantal Akerman and Jean-Luc Godard also turn the camera on themselves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/filming-filmmakers-51165/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/film/2026/filming-filmmakers", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f1e16d833e8c96b8789446e938d2a85b7aa5935ce8afde86e1e3c3936ef20fb9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Life & Debt", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "BAM Rose Cinemas", "address": "Lafayette Avenue 30, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "$17 (General Admission), $12 (Members), plus a $2 handling fee per ticket", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": "17.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/globalization"], "description": "Life & Debt: 25th Anniversary is a screening of Life and Debt, a feature-length documentary followed by a Q&A. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Stephanie Black, the 2001 film examines globalization's lasting impact on Jamaica. It traces how structural adjustment policies imposed by the IMF, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank reshaped the island's economy and society, and the consequences of debt, trade liberalization, and international economic intervention for Jamaican workers and farmers. The film offers a timely look at Jamaica's ongoing struggle for economic sovereignty and self-determination.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/life-debt-51163/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/film/2026/life-and-debt", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1ced4ef44ea0b3b9a06ee87624ef845313a59eeff381bc2788a49eb22a7881b-2000.webp"}]}