Adequate compensation for the loss?
MEDIA: Author Jay David Bolter provides a comprehensive description of contemporary digital culture where digital technologies facilitate and shape the creation of many diverse communities of participation.
The post-Soviet city where dancing is political
DISSENT: Since its May 2018 police raid, Bassiani, Tbilisi’s largest nightclub, has become a symbol of defiance in the face of social conservatism.
The real deal: two new documentaries present sharply contrasting faces of social interaction.
VIENNA SHORTS: Two short documentaries from Vienna Shorts representing two distinct sides of the modern human experience, one digital and one all too real.
The «right» to be high: Colorado’s cannabis experiment
DRUGS: In the US state of Colorado, the legalisation of marijuana has seen mass commercialisation and neighbourhoods of colour exploited by unscrupulous profiteers
A midnight meeting with Kiri Dalena
OBERHAUSEN From Oberhausen 2019, we speak with The Philippines Kiri Dalena
Looking at the Philippines today: survey and resistance
PHILIPPINES: A retrospective of Kiri Dalena’s works at Oberhausen 2019
A world in stable motion
MIGRANTS: In 2018, the Collège de France established its own professorship in migration studies. Francois Héran was chosen to fill it, and the book Migrations et sociétés is an extended version of his accession lecture.
Not to cure, but to care
HEALTH: By including 5B in its documentary competition, the Cannes Festival sublimely uses a historical subject to speak about present-day challenges.
He killed because he could
PALESTINE: Manhunt on radical West Bank settler turns into clever psychological portrait of loner with a tormented soul.
A personal account of Aleppo’s destiny
SYRIA: A painful documentary infused with the occasional breath of poetry and beauty from Aleppo.
Breaking the silence about the Lebanese civil war
BEIRUT: About a War demonstrates how understanding our history can breed solace, solidarity, and progress in a society where the past is a taboo.