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REPORT LOCARNO 2003: A Good Year for the Documentary
Most people go to the Locarno Festival to watch fiction features, but the programme harbours many documentary gems, too. JERRY WHITE visited the festival this past August.
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TG4: MINORITY-LANGUAGE BROADCASTER: A Window for Embattled Languages
TG4, the Irish Gaelic language broadcaster, faces the same struggle for ratings that ‘normal’ broadcasters do, i.e. going for the least expensive programmes.
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The Invisible Hand
Sylvain L’Espérance’s video documentary La Main invisible (The Invisible Hand) is, in one way, about globalization, taking as its jumping off point the mining of Bauxite in the outback of Guinea.
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Staroverci
Jana Sevciková’s film Old Believers starts and ends with a shot taken from a boat moving steadily down the Danube. It’s tough to know how to read the gesture.
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Why did Hitler kill himself?
Kevin McMahon is still well-remembered in Canada for his film The Falls (1991), a goofy examination of Niagara Falls that departed from the sometimes overly-earnest conventions of Canadian documentary.
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I Don’t Belong Anywhere
The third ‘direction’ film by Chantal Akerman’s (after D’Est [1993] and Sud [1999]) is From the Other Side and focuses on the US-Mexican border, specifically the ranch land of Arizona.
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The flow is forever. Life is forever
Comprised of a single shot that takes us through St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum and a number of tableaux illustrating Russia’s aristocratic past, Alexandr Sokurov’s Russian Ark (2002) frustrates attempts at classification, or even at comparison.
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Mods Trilogy
The Country Inn is a portrait of Stefan Johansson, a passionate chef who owns a tiny inn.