The MFA and local theaters are collaborating on a festival celebrating the work of the Cambridge documentary filmmaker.
By James Sullivan Globe correspondent
“In an essay about Wiseman’s work, his friend and fellow filmmaker Errol Morris once wrote that Wiseman’s films — all those scenes of bureaucrats and educators and attendants — excel at ‘showing a disconnection between what people think they are doing and what they are doing. Irony abounds in Wiseman’s films. No one, absolutely no one, really knows what he is doing.'”
Frederick Wiseman: A Retrospective screens March 3–31 at The Brattle, in partnership with The Coolidge, IFFBoston, The MFA, and The Somerville Theatre.