COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new.
Two newcomers stood out from the crowd at this year’s Underdox in Munich. Sec Rouge – one of 2018’s most striking, accomplished and beautiful films of any length – and the seminal and glowingly delicate 48-minute film, Accession.
The Artist & The Pervert is a somewhat atypical portrait of an artist that tells less about composer Georg Friedrich Haas’ microtonal music then it does about his BDSM-based relationship with his wife.
Thousands of Ghanaian girls as young as six are systematically sent away from their impoverished rural homes to the capital to scrape together a few pennies – burdened with loads that could break the back of a strong adult.
Leilah Weinraub’s Shakedown is a fascinating glimpse into the world of African-American lesbian clubs and strip shows.
The Chinese contemporary artist and filmmaker Weiwei delivers a captivating life and death fresco of homeless hordes of people in Technicolor.
To political scientist Jean François Bayart, globalising and development are complementary processes.
We know what was happening in Portugal for decades under the dictatorial Salazar regime.
