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Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love [dir: Nick Broomfield]
BIOGRAPHY: Nick Broomfield’s doc about the artist Leonard Cohen and his muse and girlfriend Marianne Ihlen, is a touching story of an extraordinary relationship.
Sheep Hero [dir: Ton van Zantvoort]
CAPITALISM: As he tries to keep his own afloat, competition from big companies, cheap labour from the East, and smart machinery all make life increasingly difficult for one Dutch shepherd.
The Great Green Wall [dir: Jared P. Scott]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Malian musician Inna Modja takes an epic journey down Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall project where 8,000km wall of trees is to stretch across the entire continent.
Our Boys [dir: Hagai Levi, Joseph Cedar, Tawfik Abu-Wael]
ISRAEL: Israeli docudrama unfolds the traumatic themes of violence and revenge that led to open war in the summer of 2014.
Dead Nation [dir: Radu Jade]
World War II: A harrowing depiction of the Romanian Holocaust told through small town photography and the words of a local, Jewish doctor.
Learning about the world of multiple cinemas
(Mediascapes. Pratiche dell'immagine e antropologia culturale)
(Mediascapes. Pratiche dell'immagine e antropologia culturale)
MEDIA: Feeding the imagination, desires, and emotions of increasingly mobile and displaced lives, transnational media landscapes take shape.
The age of platforms
(Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism)
(Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism)
MEDIA: Analyzing contemporary social media practices likes fake news, Geert Lovink looks toward a possible end to «platform nihilism».
Adequate compensation for the loss?
(The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media)
(The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media)
MEDIA: Author Jay David Bolter provides a comprehensive description of contemporary digital culture where digital technologies facilitate and shape the creation of many diverse communities of participation.
The New Left’s cinematic revolt
(Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema )
(Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema )
CINEMA: Morgan Adamson’s Enduring Images brings the revolutionary cinema of the 1960s alive and reminds us of the necessity of battling the ruling representations.
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