Monument — Sarah Halpern & Tim Geraghty [Review]

For Tim Geraghty and Sarah Halpern, the process of making Monument, a, well, monumental four-and-a-half-hour experimental documentary that’s ostensibly about the diminutive but shockingly consequential state of Rhode Island, began as a quotidian document of their “experience of learning.” During a generous and lengthy question-and-answer session after one of the screenings of the film’s premiere run at Anthology Film Archives, the pair gave insight into their rather domestic filmmaking practice. In the first few months of the COVID lockdown, family...