Chris Hegedus
6 titles · documentary
Hegedus has co-directed documentaries since the late 1970s, most of them with her husband, D. A. Pennebaker. Their films watch people under pressure at close range: Norman Mailer facing a panel of feminists at New York's Town Hall in Town Bloody Hall, Clinton's strategists in The War Room, pastry chefs sitting France's hardest craft exam in Kings of Pastry, and a lawyer going to court for animal personhood in Unlocking the Cage.
Signature
- Observational filmmaking with no narrator.
- Campaigns, trials and competitions with the result still to come.
- Music films (Depeche Mode 101, Down from the Mountain).
- Co-directed with D. A. Pennebaker.
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