Animadocs 2013
DOK Leipzig: Today more creative techniques like comics, drawings, puppet animation, photographs, graphic novels and paintings, indicate the growing recognition of animation as an art form.
A confident woman
Challenging deeply rooted patriarchal customs.
Rafea: Solar Mamas directed by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim won the Oxfam Novib Award at IDFA last November.
The winners’ recollection
A nation’s collective recollection forms its expectations. A dialogue between past and presence is implicit in Patrico Guzman’s films on Chile’s recent past, whilst Mexico’s Diego Gutiérrez and Sarah Polley from Canada discuss their own and parents’ memories. The truth is cleansing, but we all need interpretations or rewrites in order to cope with the all too real.
Incarcerated Women
Suppression come in many forms. A collection of screenings at February’s Berlinale, portrayed various female destinies.
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.
Contemporary female Muslim identity
Do I need to have a religious, sexual and cultural identity?
What if my identity becomes a hindrance?
Bianca Olivia Nita looks at personal identity in a series of films about contemporary Muslim women.
Fragmentary days in Mumbai
INDIA: A new generation of indian filmmakers deals with documentary films in so many different ways. Steffen Moestrup reports from Mumbai international Film Festival.
Sexual identity is a complex thing
There are a lot of complex ways in which individuals shape their sexual identity.
The image is a recurring one. Again and again we are witnesses to it
The unloading of yet another truckload of garbage. The metal machine opens and out comes a truckload of plastic bottles, rotten vegetables, household waste, old scrap metal and other objects typically found in a pile of garbage.
Search of the music of the sacred and the sacred within music
Can musical influences be described in terms of their sociocultural genealogy, or their historical/ geographical roots?
Re-traces WG Sebald’s steps through the Suffolk countryside
In the summer of 1992, the author WG Sebald, “irradiated by melancholy”, set off on a physical and philosophical wander through the Suffolk countryside – a route that he later re-traced in his landmark book The Rings of Saturn