Will Fenstermaker
Review • Degree Critical • 2017

On ‘Casting JonBenét’

The unconventional documentary, in calling upon the Ramseys’ neighbors to cut through years of rumors and theorizing, guides us through the hardest questions surrounding JonBenét’s murder.

Publication
Degree Critical
Published
Spring 2017
Genre
Review

This review was originally published in The School of Visual Art’s Degree Critical magazine in 2017. Four years later it was included in the anthology Holding Everything Dear, 2007–2021: Selections from Degree Critical (PDF)⁠, a journal of collected writings published to commemorate the closure of the MFA Art Criticism & Writing program at SVA.

Holding Everything Dear (PDF)⁠

Opening spread of “Casting JonBenét” in three columns, with a film still of girls in pageant costumes.
The closing spread of “Casting JonBenét,” four columns of text.
Opening spread of “Casting JonBenét” in three columns, with a film still of girls in pageant costumes.
The closing spread of “Casting JonBenét,” four columns of text.