«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.
Towards a paradigm shift in Norwegian drug policy
DRUGS: Perhaps it is the opponents of Norways's drug reform who should watch The Winds of Change, which follows three activists from the Association for Human Drug Policy.
Death in Istanbul
CONTROL: In October 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never came out, leaving his fiancée and an international community of dissidents to piece together clues to his murder.
The trauma mapped on a nation-state’s skin
TRAUMA: An unorthodox documentary on the exceptional journey of one of Serbia's first female partisans, who helped lead the resistance in Auschwitz.
Paradise lost
ENVIRONMENT: A single man wields enough power to uproot the living artifacts of his country’s collective history and memory.
Russia’s war with its own people
RUSSIA: Two films look into the appeal and threat of Western favorite Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
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.
A liberal left?
ACCELERATIONISM: Several thinkers believe it is possible for a rather complacent left to carve out a better and freer future through capitalism and technology.
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.
