PHOTOGRAPHY: The journalistic war photos that we have, unfortunately, seen so frequently in recent months are primarily meant to inform us about the conflict. However, they often strive to take on a subjective character and become political actors. Photographs of suffering children play a special role in this transformation. What role?
CLIMATE: Since her solitary protest outside Swedish parliament, Greta Thunberg now leads a global movement on the climate change crisis.
CAPITALISM: The undercover work of Washington DC-based Environmental Investigation Agency shines a light into the murky and murderous world of illegal logging around the globe.
TIFF: Ahead of the 19th Transilvania International Film Festival, which occurs 31 July – 9 August 2020, Modern Times Review spoke with both Artistic Director Mihai Chirilov and What’s Up, Doc? section programmer Ana Maria Sandu.
MIGRANTS: Two short Austrian documentaries offer varied glimpses into the experiences of elderly, post-war migrants and their lives built in its capital city, Vienna.
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.
Despite a somewhat sprawled narrative, this collection of stories around the gun named Glock is worth your attention.
The Waltz of Waldheim poses the question whether a fascist threat suppressed and unexamined on a national scale has ever really been defeated.
Péter Forgács is well-known as an experimental filmmaker, as an artist who expertly re-arranges found footage in ways that meditate on memory and history
Curiously, two feature docs have been released in Austria at the same time dealing with the same theme: modern industrialized fishery and agriculture – and both films were supported by the Austrian Film Institute and the Vienna Film Fund.
A richly photographed journey through old and new worlds across much of Central Europe