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A collaborative closeness

Lauren Wissot / November 14, 2019

BIOGRAPHY: A dense journey encompassing the life on Toni Morrison and her place in history.

Angela Davis, biography, Chad Thompson, DOK.fest München, Howard University, IDFA, Jacob Lawrence, Johanna Giebelhaus, Kara Walker, Mickalene Thomas, Oprah Winfrey, Sundance, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Tommy Walker, Toni Morrison, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, Walter Mosley

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A deeply touching goodbye

Aleksander Huser / September 7, 2019

BIOGRAPHY: Nick Broomfield’s doc about the artist Leonard Cohen and his muse and girlfriend Marianne Ihlen, is a touching story of an extraordinary relationship.

Biggie & Tupac, biography, FIPADOC, Hydra, IDFA, Jan Christian Mollestad, Kurt & Courtney, Kyle Gibbon, Leonard Cohen, Marc Hoeferlin, Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, Marianne Ihlen, Nick Broomfield, Porto/Post/Doc, Shani Hinton, Sundance, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

A pop doc out of the ordinary

Aleksander Huser / November 14, 2018

BIOGRAPHY: «Why are you a problematic pop star? » director Stephen Loveridge asks M.I.A. in his documentary. The answers provided by the film point towards more than an uncompromising and sometimes challenging personality.

Andrew Goldman, Arular, Bill Maher, biography, British, Britpop, Chernobyl, civil war, Cold War, dancehall, Dhani Harrison, donald trump, East German, Eelam, Elastica, electro, eyelet, famine, genocide, George Bush, hip hop, Hungary, Iron Curtain, Justine Frischmann, Kala, Konstantin Chernenko, law, Leonid Brezhnev, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, London, Lori Cheatle, LTTE, M.I.A., Madonna, Matangi, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., Mathangi Arulpragasam, Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam, Maya, media, Mikhail Lermontov, Miklos Nemeth, music, music documentary, New York Times, Paul Hicks, Paul Mezey, Pavel Palazhchenko, pop doc, pop star, punk, rules, scepticism, Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, Stephen Loveridge, Tamil, Tamil Tigers, vladimir putin, world music, Yuri Andropov

The necessity of role models

Kjetil Røed / February 21, 2017

BIOGRAPHY: We can all learn something about consideration and honesty by James Baldwin.

biography, black lives matter, copenhagen, CPH:DOX, eyelet, Hannah Arendt, Hébert Peck, I Am Not Your Negro, james baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, MTR1, racism, Raoul Peck, Raoul Peck.Photography & script: James Baldwin., Rémi Grellety, USA

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