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In partnership with Icarus Films, Spectacle is thrilled to host this tribute to the late and great documentarian Heddy Honigmann, who passed on in May of 2022. Her 1992 documentary METAL AND MELANCHOLY – about taxicab drivers in her native Peru – was a surprise Spectacle hit when we showed it in 2012; this miniature tribute reprises that film plus four others, representing a small taste of Honigmann’s overall filmmaking career, which spanned four decades and several continents. Honigmann was renown for her incisive perspective on the foibles of humankind, and her ability to seek answers to delicate questions without probing or harassing her subject-collaborators. Taken in sum, they represent a vision of nonfiction filmmaking equally as shrewd as it is compassionate. “I don’t do interviews,” Honigmann said. “I make conversation.”