Film critic and scholar Jean-Michel Frodon interviews Ukrainian filmmaker about his career, beginning with his training in mathematics and science (and the surprising connections between math and movies), his training at Russian film school, his relationship with various of his teachers, how he finances his films, and of course the films themselves, including Train Stop, My Joy, Blockade, Mr. Landsbergis, The Natural History Of Destruction, Maidan, Reflection, Austerlitz, In the Fog, A Gentle Creature, Donbass, and Babi Yarr Context .

Nineteen scholars, writers, and friends remember Annette Michelson (1922–2018), cofounder of October . Written tributes by Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Enrico Camporesi, Edward Dimendberg, Jean-Michel Frodon, Amos Gitai, Vivian Gornick, Gertrud Koch, Antonia Lant, Stuart Liebman, Anne McCarthy, Tony Pipolo, Robert Polidori, Yvonne Rainer, Ethan Taubes, Allen S. Weiss, and Federico Windhausen, and a series of photographs by Babette Mangolte.