55 years in the making, Edgar Reitz’ wonderful Subject: Filmmaking is a charming case for obligatory film classes in schools everywhere.
Subject: Filmmaking Shows Why Everyone Needs to Study Cinema
Tag: Documentary
Architecton Insists Upon Itself
Architecton has some awe-inspiring visuals, but its let down by its distracting high frame rate and suspect choice of images.
Polyphonic Russian Voices, Deftly Intercepted
A rigorous and brutal documentation of Russian brutality in Ukraine, Intercepted’s absences stir the worst recesses of the human imagination.
IDFA 2023: Fact, Fiction, Fabrication
As IDFA as an institution failed to find the correct response to pro-Palestinian activism, the films themselves had an equally knotty relationship to facts.
Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project. As Enjoyable (and as Evasive) as its Subject.
Going To Mars: The NIkki Giovanni Project is a fascinating documentary, but hides a more fascinating character study behind hagiography.
Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV. Art Revolution, Televised.
The revolutionary art of the “Godfather of video art” is given a dutiful biopic treatment in Name June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV.
The Outpost. A Frustrating Study in Folly.
One man’s quixotic dream to host a Pink Floyd concert in the Amazon rainforest is frustratingly explored in The Outpost — live from Venice Film Festival.
Keeping Mum. Keeping Schtum.
Keeping Mum investigates the difficulties of breaking generational trauma with open-heartedness and a willingness to embrace the cringe.
Visions du Réel Burning Lights: Cinema, Now More Than Ever
History, nostalgia and shame collide in three documentaries exploring contrasting cinematic memories in this year’s Visions du Réel Burning lights Competition.
Past, Present and Future Collide at CPH:DOX 2023
Three Nordic features at CPH:DOX 2023 critique our impact on the environment, pointing to future ways of keeping harmony between the environment and man.