The birth of something new
Modern man needs images that surpass our present clichés.
Paying attention
We are invited into an existential laboratory in which the making of the film and the decision for making it are included as active momentum.
BYDGOSZCZ 2011: The art of cinematography
Plus Camerimage Festival is a great place for documentary filmmakers to brush up on their visual skills and reflections.
IDO HARR: A big live wound
Today more Israeli filmmakers search for different approaches to familiar subjects, Ido Harr explains.
JAY ROSENBLATT: The human condition – a sense of loss
Why is the Jewish filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt from San Francisco so obsessed with loss and death in his films? His many films are like collage essays, usually comprising archive material. As a filmmaker, has he been ahead of his time? And as programming director of a Jewish festival, how does he cope with Jewish history?
SAN FRANCISCO 2012: A real desire for understanding
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has earned a reputation for bold programming. Panelists discuss Jewish identity, values, and politics. Occasionally, the documentaries screened at the festival have provoked protest and anger from within the Jewish American community
Defaced honour
As a way of instilling shame, perpetrators throw acid at their victims. An extensive outreach program tries to raise awareness on the prevalence of acid attacks around the world.
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The arch of evil
The French city Lussas gathered filmmakers, producers, critics and film-lovers to assess current documentary production, and to follow up its lineage to previous works. DoX’ Maria Tarantino looks at three films sharing the theme of «evil».
A warning letter: The pyramids of our time
Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami, leading to the nuclear accidents at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, have accelerated the immediacy of Michael Madsen’s newest documentary, Into Eternity. The scientists simply do not know how to answer.