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Sonia’s search for beauty
Losing Sonia is a portrait of a nun, of the church in Ivanovo, and of contemporary Russia, all in one.
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A journey of a gas line Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod
Three crosses in the snow – not Christian ones, different ones.
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Film Festival Rotterdam 2013: Exploiting the thin line
Some films invite us to think about documentary performances by definition: don’t all participants somehow construct their presentation of self?
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The life of deaf cyclist James Duthie
Dummy Jim is a film about James Duthie, a deaf traveller. It is a film with an exuberant visual style, and a creative soundtrack as well. But when does style start to make you feel stuck? Can creativity turn into a straitjacket?
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Remember how to forget
A film about identity, memory, trauma, poetry, music, family, and death – a dive into Honig’s past
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SURROUNDED BY SECRECY
Making films under repressive regimes is a huge challenge. Making films about repressive regimes presents challenges of its own.
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Two films rely on the memories of their protagonists
The two films that are bundled on DVD with this issue of DoX, are both meta-narratives about the construction of stories, be they histories, memories or films.
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Sexual identity is a complex thing
There are a lot of complex ways in which individuals shape their sexual identity.
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Loss and love
From the Binger DocLab workshop, Willemien Sanders looks into the development of The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song.