The candidate we deserve
Prescient verite doc reveals the spectacle of American politics in the age of Trump.
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Rock music as propaganda
Slovenian band Laibach could be seen as an ironic commentary to rock music’s affinity with fascism. It depends whether its audience made any reflections on this when the group held North Korea’s first ever rock concert – organised by Norwegian artist Morten Traavik.
Who’s afraid of the deep, dark web?
A documentary which explore the dangerous, bizarre and hair-raising world of the anonymous Internet.
The artist’s talking head
World Premiere in Leipzig: A documentary positioned in the crossfire between a semen-squirting penis and milk-spouting breasts.
This week’s magazine launch
Modern Times – a new European documentary magazine was launched at this week’s Jihlava International Film Festival.
Hannah Arendt as a refugee
Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the existential impossibility of escape are more relevant than ever, and make up the basic premise in a new documentary film about the philosopher, who herself fled to Paris at a time of political polarisation.
Dispatches from Moments of Calm
An insightful eye-opener for history as something more than linear progress
BILL MORRISON: My films are not a conversation with the past
Bill Morrison is honored as one of the last “possessed” experimental filmmakers working with reviving the found-footage and non/fictional film material.
Letter to an unhappy painting
The daughter Sara Broos decided to make a documentary to get closer to her mum, the renowned Swedish painter, Karin Broos.
Riots instead of strikes
Riot is the modern reaction to capitalism, in the same way strikes were in the past.
PIOTR STASIK: «When something is very difficult, magical things can happen.»
Piotr Stasik is a facinating, independent voice on the Polish film arena. We spoke to him on the topics of love, freedom, New Yorkers and Europeans – and his recent essay documentary 21 X New York.