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A singular, sole person – monosyllabic
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ (Reunion, 1958) is a controversial author – loved and loathed. He is compared to Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire for his provocations.
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An exoticism that blinds people?
What did Benazir Bhutto really achieve as Prime Minister of Pakistan? She brought drinking water and electricity to the villages, she built schools and ended polio. But this film – a bombardment of expressions – is more a history of Pakistan.
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IDFA 2010: Multiple times in documentaries
Three documentaries show that history can be understood in terms of time periods of different duration: A single event such as an airship trip in 1929, a long running campaign to distort Palestinian history, or the memories of a father connected to world events.
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A battle you cannot win
Two films – one fiction and one documentary – tell an African story from the perspective of the white people involved, who find themselves labelled as the enemy. Both films confront us with the colonial past and raise questions about the feasibility of exporting democracy and enforcing it on fundamentally different societies.
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On loneliness
In The Player, the director portrays three gamblers: the Bookmaker, the Swindler and the Poker Player, as well as admiration and fascination for a father who lost everything and didn’t even blink.
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People helping people
Business model 2.0: get your personal audience to support your personal art. In the US filmmakers have managed to finance several films through the Iinternet, but what does it have to offer a European documentary scene?
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FILMMAKING PRACTICE: Informed Consent: Must or Myth?
Informed consent is considered a standard requirement when filming people for a documentary. However reasonable the idea, in reality the consent is not always obtained.