Longinotti and her Sampat
At Guth Gafa, Kim Longinotto gave a master class. Her new film is Pink Saris. DoX met her for an interview.
Cutting the movement
Negotiating the terrain between politics and art, dance documentaries are unique works. MELANIE SEVCENKO examines four exciting – and individual – successes.
Mostra 2010: Death in Venice
In Venice essay films show a resistance to the mainstream film industry. Remarkably, death is present in of a lot of the films, whether fiction, faction or documentary.
Films live off conflicts
DoX talks with Sergey Dvortsevoy about being a filmmaker, his moral limits, and why he went from documentaries to fiction.
Leipzig 2010: A personal vision
At the festival four animation programs contained Animadok, Neue Deutsche Animation, the Anima Für Kinder program and Pink Elephants. If real life can be intensely surreal, there is no better cinematic tool to explore surrealism than animation.
Leipzig 2010: Current conditions
346 films from 58 countries, 145 visiting directors – this year’s 53rd Leipzig documentary film festival could hardly be described as greater than the sum of its parts. Within one short week, who could possibly tell? But some of the peculiar events could easily branch off and become festivals on their own.
EDINBURGH 2010: About Absence
The orangutan Nenette in Philibert’s film is like the Mona Lisa: a victim of her rarity, drained by curiosity. We watch her watching us watching her, writes Emma Davie. Another film in Edinburgh which also explores the “unseen” was The Edge of Dreaming.
DIRECTOR BEATE ARNESTAD: The “Disease” of Humanity
Beate Arnestad is proving to be one of Norway’s most interesting international filmmakers at the moment, writes Truls Lie. From addressing the plight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, she went on to track a major court case after the genocide in Rwanda. Her documentaries depict individuals under extreme pressure.