A loose adaptation of a live performance about a failed film, Zia Anger’s docufiction My First Film both deconstructs and reinvents the filmmaking process.
My First Film Testifies to the Collective Energy Necessary for All Creation
Tag: Documentary
“This is a story of becoming” – Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer and Susanne Heuer on The Teaches of Peaches
Near the 25th anniversary of Peaches’ explosive second album, The Teaches of Peaches gives gret insight into her life. We talked with the team behind the film.
Subject: Filmmaking Shows Why Everyone Needs to Study Cinema
55 years in the making, Edgar Reitz’ wonderful Subject: Filmmaking is a charming case for obligatory film classes in schools everywhere.
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.