Dziga Vertov

  • A million roses and coal

    A million roses and coal

    UKRAINE: The impact of war on three generations of women, blending personal stories, family archives, and historical parallels.

  • Exploring cinematic reflections of crisis: documentary on the march

    Exploring cinematic reflections of crisis: documentary on the march

    CINEMA: More prescient than ever, Doclisboa's «Documentary on the March» retrospective provide a blueprint for today's documentaries for social change.

  • A new century of war

    A new century of war

    CINEMA: Thought lost forever, Dziga Vertov's 1921 archive of the Russian Civil War finally debuts to the public 100 years later.

  • Recreate it!

    Recreate it!

    INTERVIEW: Artistic director at The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Orestis Andreadakis.

  • Stay on these roads

    Stay on these roads

    SHORTS: Neil Young on two notable documentary shorts from Belgrade's Alternative Film/Video

  • A spectrum of consciousness

    A spectrum of consciousness

    SOCIETY: Simon Beaulieu's untraditional film seeks to convey the multitude of anxieties experienced in the modern world.

  • The overlooked «in-betweener»

    The overlooked «in-betweener»

    Two highlights of Doclisboa 2018 were documentaries from an often-overlooked category – the mid-length film.

  • Gone is the “one screen” Logic

    Gone is the “one screen” Logic

    Vertov was no fan of fiction films. He considered them a kind of “opium of the masses” with their manipulative content and dreamlike scenes. Today, Perry Bard’s project uses him as an example of how digital culture can transform and recreate the film as medium.

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