Welcome to Spain
Familia offers a rare intimacy with the underclass realities of globalization.
A sense of voyeurism
We are left wondering if Boris Gerrets – director, voyeur, friend and mentor – is responsible for anything that took place within the camera’s space, or just outside of it?
The art of creating menus
Filming cooking experiments is not easy. And the paying customers serve as guinea pigs.
Stunt work
Parkour is “like skating without a skateboard,” the art-sport of moving through urban spaces – doing what is unimaginable. As DOX’s Melanie Sevcenko writes in her critique, parkour has been considered ‘a state of mind,’ rather than a set of actions.
ROTTERDAM 2011: Five ways to look at the world
The International Film Festival Rotterdam traditionally showcases extraordinary films, performances and installations.
MONTREAL 2011: The cinema in your head
At the 29th festival of films about art, Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA), DOX’s Kjetil Røed writes from different angles: psychological, conceptual, distortions of the real and intermedia reconsidered. But was the festival itself missing a historical and theoretical context?
SUNDANCE 2011:A nanosecond of history
As usual, social issue docs had a strong showing at the festival this year. A notable thread for DoX’s Harriette Yahr was “writing history” – she looks at three films in this regard.
The transmediale festival in Berlin: Making films about themselves making films
The transmediale festival in Berlin is a quintessential summit for the discourse between art and digital culture. The “Immediated Autodocumentary” project – shot, edited and screened during the festival – points out how technology may have replaced the director with the transmedia producer.
BERLIN 2011: What matters in Berlin
Cinema for Peace addressed the unbearable heaviness of being. Also over the course of the Berlinale festival, the ambivalence towards social issues was explicit, as DOX’s Truls Lie experienced himself.
PUENTO DE VISTA 2011: Asesinato del padre
In prioritising the alternative and innovative, the film festival Punta de Vista in Pamplona runs the risk of turning the virtues of alternative thinking into an orthodoxy. Judging by the repertoire of its 7th edition, the flaws of counter-conventionality turned rigid are by far outnumbered by its benefits.
Dimitri Eipides: When ethics is a must
FAREWELL: The Thessaloniki International Film Festival and its people bid farewell to Dimitri Eipides. We republish our interview in honour of his life works – from when he received the 2011 EDN award 2011. In this interview, Truls Lie speaks with Eipides about movies that matter, action, sabotage and ethics.
THESSALONIKI 2011: Bodily experience
The sensual, muscular level of a documentary is often overshadowed by theme, style and ethical issues. At Doc Fest 13 in Thessaloniki Steffen Moestrup tried to focus on the bodily aspects of the screened documentaries.