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A sense of voyeurism
We are left wondering if Boris Gerrets – director, voyeur, friend and mentor – is responsible for anything that took place within the camera’s space, or just outside of it?
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Stunt work
Parkour is “like skating without a skateboard,” the art-sport of moving through urban spaces – doing what is unimaginable. As DOX’s Melanie Sevcenko writes in her critique, parkour has been considered ‘a state of mind,’ rather than a set of actions.
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The transmediale festival in Berlin: Making films about themselves making films
The transmediale festival in Berlin is a quintessential summit for the discourse between art and digital culture. The “Immediated Autodocumentary” project – shot, edited and screened during the festival – points out how technology may have replaced the director with the transmedia producer.
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Behind the veil of a culture
Who has to cover up for God and uncover for men when the club curtains are drawn in this film about belly dancing?
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HOTDOCS 2011: Dreaming your way through reality
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival offered a lexicon of subjects and visual styles; a move from the illusion of cinema towards authenticity.
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CAIRO: Freelance revolutionary
Egyptian filmmaker Wael Omar talks with DoX about the revolution, the future of activist cinema and social media as messenger. As he says, you find yourself choosing between being a filmmaker and fighting for your cause.
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Know thy enemy
U.S. military creates Mock Iraqi villages as urban operations training environments – in the Mojave Desert. They plan to give war a ‘humanist touch’, to prompt a change of opinion towards Americans in the minds of islamic countries. But philosophical and moral dilemmas arise surrounding the idea of academics training professional killers on how to…
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A monstrous ego-extravaganza art exhibition
Notorious uK street artist Banksy opens his clandestine world to the public and reveals the processes by which beautiful crimes turn into lucrative commodities. With cunning slapstick comedy, fumbling public-space invaders become black-clad ninjas, turning the precarious streets of Los Angeles into satirical gallery spaces.
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A sense of pride, of vision
Two docs about South American life and politics show both the squalor of economic repression and the fight to change history - some use leftist tactics, others use art and garbage. Both films listen to the marginalized victims of privatization, pollution and poverty.