What happens in the mix?
DOX:LAB experiments with hybrid forms of filmmaking, enabling crossovers, not only between directors and cultures, but also between storytelling and languages of film.
A journey of a gas line Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod
Three crosses in the snow – not Christian ones, different ones.
DOCUMENTS FROM THE U.S
We are drawing a line through three films from Sundance this year: politics, economics, and the Occupy Movement.
The spirit of unity
The Spirit of ’45, Ken Loach’s new documentary, looks back at the period that followed the end of the WWII in the UK, when the Labor Party won the elections and implemented their social democratic program.
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?
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?
Take a look at Europe through the eyes of a six year old child
Mother Europe gave birth to many children. She raised them with love and with care. Among the children were Belgium and the twins called Denmark. Mother Europe kept having children.
A contemplative look at Peru’s recent political history
A few years back, Pamela Cohn met director Heddy Honigmann for a talk about her then newly released documentary, El Olvido.
Albert Maysles – on film directing
This interview was done in Norway, May 2013,
at the Nordic Doc film festival. The festival screened a lot of his and his brother’s films, like
Grey Gardens and the one on Rolling Stones.
A tendency and some expectations
EDITORIAL: After my four years as editor, let me end by sharing two perspectives.
A magical tour de force
With shy, pensive, and at times monosyllabic characters, director Tinatin Gurchiani paints a compassionate and somewhat melancholic portrait of Georgia’s eclectic new generation.
His theatre of thought
Slavoj Žižek’s philosophy in this film continually refers to sequences in films, but also Immanuel Kant, hardcore pornography, Wagner and caffeine-free coffee.