«We are simply looking for good films»
INTERVIEW: Andrea Prenghyová, Project Director of dok.incubator, speaks with Modern Times Review on the 2021 workshop.
Karel Vachek: Films just have to make you laugh!
Director Karel Vachek just died, so we publish this interview. Fifty years after Prague Spring and thirty years after the Velvet Revolution, he looked back on the evolution of our society and predicts a transformation to direct democracy.
The art of disappearing
PHILOSOPHY: Our editor Truls Lie has interviewed Jean Baudrillard earlier in Oslo – and since a lot have asked for access, we have republished it and a video here.
Proud to be an American
POLITICS: Touching on almost every aspect of life, Frederick Wiseman's latest opus illustrates all ways a local city administration can engage in civil discourse with its citizens.
On the extraordinary achievements of an ordinary man
LANGUAGE: Through one man's extensive travels and research over a 25-year span, a comparative study of 4 Indian languages is created.
Anatomía de una lucha de resistencia
LABOUR: Un largo período de desindustrialización da paso a un paisaje en descomposición debido al declive de una comunidad minera.
Anatomy of a resistance struggle
LABOUR: A long period of de-industrialisation gives way to a decaying landscape through the decline of a mining community.
When values clash
FAMILY: The daughter of a secular father and a devout mother tells the story reflective of the political events leading to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
The death of democracy by a thousand cuts
JOURNALISM: A vivid portrait of tenacious Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, founder of the Duterte-critical Rappler.com.
Under the skin
RACISM: Systematic, legalized racism has defined Brazil as a country for centuries with recent legal changes doing little to change the picture
Sundance 2021: Two award winning documentaries show us what courage looks like
Sundance: We look at two Sundance festival documentary winners and wonder, after his year’s (mostly) virtual festival may have set a standard for such post-pandemic events, what will stay and what will go?
FIFDH Impact Day Lab shines spotlight on human rights filmmaking
WEBINAR: The industry-focused aspect of the FIFDH programme saw a wide-ranging online event: «Filming For Human Rights»
Gramsci’s Notebooks
DOK:REVUE: Canadian Experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom on the importance of taking pictures.
It comes right from the belly
DOK:REVUE: In this personal essay, a Danish sound designer Peter Albrechtsen remembers one of the world's greatest and most unique modern film composers, Jóhann Jóhannsson. This article was written in 2018, shortly after Jóhannsson´s death, but has never been published.
The relationship between art and the political
ART: Though many of today's patrons use art as a giant advertising pillar, what can art still do when politicians lie?
How far in advance do you have to know what you are looking for?
MEDIA: Profiling, information control, behavior-regulating nudges and the sale of personal data should prove to be the reality, rather than the realisation of the internet as a publicist network.
The control of society and the unruly
LATE MODERNITY: People today are gaining more and more control over their surroundings – but are losing touch with the world. Where is the limit for measurements, quality assurances, quantifications and bureaucratic routines?
No one knows the future
COVID-19: A gathering of influential voices from around the world to weigh in on the progressive possibilities in the wake of COVID-19.
There’s more than one feminism
DOK.REVUE: A reflection on women documentarians inspired by Barbora Baronová’s book Women on Women.
Documentary for social change
SOCIAL CHANGE: Essential reading for all who want to better understand what makes our time the documentary golden age
