In front of the sillyvision
The Game of Death is a cocktail of effects, a compilation of increasingly extreme television entertainment. A battle between personal ethics and loyalty to authorities?
The enemy within
We regard others with hostility, because we do not know or understand their goals, motives or means. Three films elaborates on people stepping out of their comfort zone, as WilleMien SAnDerS sees it. But when it comes to facing the enemy, just facing it is not enough.
Drifting in a sea of amiguity
According to Pirjo honkasalo: ”making the image is the documentary – the visual aesthetic is the essential part.” AS DOX’s Pamela Cohn comments, she is attached to the logic of the dream, and trusts the simple poetry of images.
To raise food awareness
American writer and filmmaker Harriette Yahr travelled to the world of food at CPh:DOX in Denmark.
CPH:DOX 2011: Recyclers and exorcists
The new:Vision Award is a competition for documentaries that are experimental innovative, reflective – but beyond the limits of reality. DOX’s Pamela Cohn participated.
SHEFFIElD Doc/FEST 2011: A good and faithful Muslim
Making and exhibiting independent documentary in the Arab world is a challenge in several distinct ways. Pamela Cohn writes about two outstanding films from the Sheffield festival. Are they calling for a more humanist, modern approach to being a faithful Muslim?
A conspiracy against conspiracy
What is the power of disclosure? asks Truls Lie. Three films – from Burma, from Guantánamo and about Wikileaks – shows that todays “guerrilla” don’t use violence but information as their weapon.
In the theatre of war
Pål Refsdal drew a logical conclusion from the state of contemporary war reporting: NATO military forces will not allow reporters to wander about in the theatre of war, jump on their helicopters and armoured personnel carriers and ride to the latest battle, as the U.S. did in Vietnam.
