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'Been Here Stay Here' Review

'In Transit' co-director David Usui makes his solo feature debut with a beautiful film about the conflicted community of Tangier Island.

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Christopher Campbell
May 12, 2026
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Nearly a decade after making his feature debut as a co-director of Albert Maysles’s final documentary, In Transit, David Usui finally went solo for this hidden gem of a film. Been Here Stay Here is a mostly observational portrait of a conservative, religious island community enduring under threat of climate change that they believe is God and nature’s w…

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