“Was I mad?” Tribeca has debuted the first official trailer for a documentary film titled Humpty Dumpty X, premiering at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival coming up in June this summer in New York City. The film is an autobiographical look back at filmmaker Tony Kaye’s experiences and troubles making the iconic 90s film American History X. 23 years in the making, Tony Kaye’s deeply personal doc returns to the era of American History X through his own footage: phone calls, confessions and creative rants from a singular artist navigating one of Hollywood’s most legendary chapters. The story is stuff of Hollywood folklore: he tried to remove his name from the film and replace it with “Humpty Dumpty” rather than compromise his vision. Tribeca adds: “The result is a fascinating self-portrait of one of cinema’s true originals, a filmmaker who has always insisted on doing things his own way and has the scars to prove it. Kaye understands his footage as a meditation on art and Hollywood, and the film offers something rare: unmediated access to a major director in the middle of making a major film. For anyone interested in the realities of creative life inside the studio system, this long-promised work is essential viewing.” Sounds good. Get a first look below. // Continue Reading ›
