Bringing together the films of Naomi Uman, work by the Japanese filmmaking collective Ogawa Pro, and Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s Leviathan, It Takes a Village is a program of vital independent documentary practices placed into richly rewarding conversation. Uman, based in Mexico City, specializes in portrait films with an especial focus on female subjects and traditional handicrafts; Ogawa Pro, founded in the turbulent late ’60s by Ogawa Shinsuke, produced essential documents of the student uprisings and Sanrizuka protests; Paravel and Castaing-Taylor’s film is an immersive trip on a Massachusetts-based commercial trawler fishing the North Atlantic. As disparate as these practices may at first seem, they’re united by a shared emphasis on the filmmakers’ relationship to their subjects, creating films of unusual—even radical—intimacy and self-exposure, as well as, in this selection, the communal aspect of food-gathering: rice farming, persimmon harvesting, and hauling in catch. A program in which filmmaker-observers become embedded in communal harvests and, in so doing, become a temporary element of the harvest itself.