Claus Mueller

Claus Mueller

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Claus Mueller is filmfestivals.com  Senior New York Correspondent

New York City based Claus Mueller reviews film festivals and related issues and serves as a  senior editor for Society and Diplomatic Review.

As a professor emeritus he covered at Hunter College / CUNY social and media research and is an accredited member of the US State Department's Foreign Press Center.

 

(cmueller@hunter.cuny.edu)

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Other Israel Film Festival 2016

Celebrating its 10th anniversary The Other Israel Film Festival was held from December 1-8 at the Jewish Community Center of Manhattan (JCC) showcasing nine feature and three short films attracting...


Manifesto, Julian Rosefeldt, 2016

Until January 8, 2017 New York’s Park Avenue Armory is showcasing Julian Rosefeldt’s MANIFESTO, an extraordinary film installation which first premiered in December 2015 at the Australian Centre for...


Merci Patron! (Thanks Boss!), Francois Ruffin, France, 2015

This documentary is the French counterpart to Michael Moore’s 1989 Roger & Me in which Moore attempted to confront Roger Smith, the president of General Motors. Both Ruffin and Moore engage in an...


DOC NYC 2016

Established in 2010 the DOC NYC film festival has become the largest documentary film festival in North America and has quadrupled in size since its beginning.  In the 2016 edition from November 10 –...

Continuing its tradition of high quality programming The Margaret Mead Film Festival celebrated its 40th anniversary at its home, the American Museum of Natural History.  Established in 1977 it is...

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New York : An Occupation of Loss, Taryn Simon

In the vast New York  Park Avenue Armory Taryn Simon presented from September 13-25 as a world premiere a uniquely themed performance piece in which professional mourners from 30 countries shared...


Interview with Aroon Shivdasani Executive Director of The New York Indian Film Festival

Celebrating its 16th anniversary from May 7-14, 2016, the New York Indian Film Festival was the first festival in the United States devoted to Indian films and has grown to be the largest and most...


New York: 2016 Asian American International Film Festival

Held from July 21 to July 30 at eleven venues in Manhattan and Queens this year’s edition of the AAIFF included 28 narrative  feature and documentary films and 40 short films from more than 15...


Zero Days, Alex Gibney, 2016. USA

It is certainly rare that a documentary covers a topical problem that has such apocalyptical implications as Gibney’s data based exploration of the current state of cyberwarfare introducing major and...


New York: Japan Cuts 2016

Japan Cuts is the biggest festival of Japanese films in the United States featuring only films which have not been screened before in New York City.  In this year’s edition, held from July14-24, 29...