Series

Cinematic Sports Documentary: History, Politics, Aesthetics

During the past 15 years, the sports documentary has achieved a heightened level of recognition not just in American and global sports culture but in the broader public imaginary in and beyond American sports culture. Our series highlights films that are both culturally and socially incisive and aesthetically innovative. These films, in various ways, use sports’ inherent visuality as a resource and a launching point to explore movement, color, physical activity, and sporting space. Spanning geographic locations and time periods of sport history, this series brings the cinematic to the sporting—and vice versa. This partnership is supported through IU Cinema’s Creative Collaborations program.

Curated by the Center for Documentary Research and Practice, with support from IU Cinema.