Reviews Mariana Mogilevich On Frederick Wiseman Still from Domestic Violence (2001). Frederick Wiseman: An American Institution. Lincoln Center, New York, January 31–March 5, 2025. It was good to spend February 2025 inside Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater. Outside, the month passed with its usual frozen gloom, dramatically heightened, if gloom can be, by the frenetic chaos of a new Trump Administration. As heads rolled, chainsaws revved, and decades of bureaucratic organization and accumulated expertise were permanently disassembled, a retrospective of the documentaries of Frederick Wiseman offered welcome refuge. Wiseman, who died earlier this year at 96, was the preeminent chronicler of our collective institutions, documenting their structures and agents in long, unnarrated films often described as observational.…