Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from Daniel Kraus, whose superb Work Series gets a showcase this weekend in Chicago . Remember those seven masterpieces of the ’00s you’ve likely never seen ? Hopefully you have checked out at least some of them by now — particularly the endlessly intriguing work of Chicago filmmaker Daniel Kraus. Since 2004, the documentarian has delivered three films chronicling ordinary Americans at their rather extraordinary jobs. Their tiles are self-explanatory and deceptively simple — Sheriff , Musician and Kraus’s latest, Professor . The films, meanwhile, are anything but.
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Moment of Truth: Director Daniel Kraus Shows America its Work Face
