With Rabbits à la Berlin the Polish filmmakers have managed to create something as unusual as an innocent yet challenging fable about the masses of the old East Germany: a collective forced to adapt to the uneasiness of a free world.
This documentary about a renowned masterpiece of the architect Rem Koolhaas evaluates architecture from a “lived” perspective. It is a portrait of the real and changing vitality of one of those monuments we consider immortal.
Business model 2.0: get your personal audience to support your personal art. In the US filmmakers have managed to finance several films through the Iinternet, but what does it have to offer a European documentary scene?
DOX met the Iranian artist and now filmmaker, Shirin Neshat, who won the prize for best director at the Venice Film Festival. Her feature film Women Without Men combines both the oppression of women in Iran and the historical moment when Iran turned away from being a democracy in 1953. These insights are still alarmingly relevant.
In the absence of critical investigation by mass media, three young men challenged the official version of the American 9/11 events. Several other documentaries are following in its path. Who was the great conspirators? Is this critical filmmaking or too phantasmagorical?
In her new film former activist Simone Bitton delves into the Imindset of young activists today. The foreign activists are alone in the front line, protected by their non-Palestinian nationality, yet in many ways it seems that they are not really prepared for what they are required to do.
Today an explosion of huge megacities is posing serious local and global challenges: equality, pollution, sustainability, climate, space and infrastructure. The documentary series Cities on Speed focuses on megacity citizens from different backgrounds and with different stories. “When someone is sick, you call a doctor. But who do you call when a city is on the verge of collapse?”
Some filmmakers working with the feature documentary genre want to reconnect us with History itself, enticing audiences to actively engage with the ever-changing, politically motivated interpretations of our recent history. Three films reconstruct historical documentary by changing the form and by providing an intense participatory experience through their main character.
