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Paying attention
We are invited into an existential laboratory in which the making of the film and the decision for making it are included as active momentum.
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Two approaches to war
From San Francisco International Film Festival: Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskaya captured the immediate aftermath of the bombing, shooting, and looting during the intense 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia. Two other filmmakers focus on the everyday life of a single US army platoon stationed in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan – showing just how…
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The heart of darkness
The Cambodian Room takes us into the uncompromising and claustrophobic world of D’Agata’s search for the intrinsically human.
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Our time is sick with eros
We are all obsessed with the universal law of morality. But in this film they make love without feelings; they cannot love; their power is to become their wound – one of the girls sees her actions as a slow death. But the film also turns the savage moments into a prayer.
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To grasp Capitalism
In the current period of global economic crisis, Kluge’s documentary can be seen as a toolbox for investigating what is happening to our modern lives. Marx is relevant because he was occupied by the forces extending our understanding of what it means to be real. But is cinema itself another form of capitalism?