Letter to an unhappy painting
The daughter Sara Broos decided to make a documentary to get closer to her mum, the renowned Swedish painter, Karin Broos.
ecology
The female orgasm – what is it good for?
Peter Sloterdijk has written an important novel at a time where biological explanations for human actions have become the norm.
Are insects the new meat?
The insects we once regarded with disgust are now being touted as the solution to the world’s food shortages. Can insects really save the world?
Bergen’s World Theatre
BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL returns our global foresight and belief in the future. Here are two of the environmental films from Norway’s most important film festival.
Why submit ourselves?
Why submit ourselves? Stefan Jarl asks in the documentary The Subjection. Why do we accept a life surrounded by danger – unnecessary hazards, which exist because someone profits from them?
Sex and metropolitan living
The metropolitan symphony 21 X New York portrays the iconic metropolis through 21 of its citizens, focusing on what to do or what not to do in a city that never sleeps.
Dreaming of communes
«The Commune» takes on the recognition that local socialism is so very hard to achive.
A warning letter: The pyramids of our time
Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami, leading to the nuclear accidents at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, have accelerated the immediacy of Michael Madsen’s newest documentary, Into Eternity. The scientists simply do not know how to answer.
Voices from the dungeon
The web has had roughly a couple of decades to realize its potential as the channel for radical, subversive thinking or action. This film illustrates the web’s potential as a forum for the much bemoaned voices that seldom gain admittance to the public domain. But the prime feat of RIP in Pieces is the compilation skills of the sampling director-artist.
SUNNY SIDE 2008: Green Paint?
“Make media with no impact” – that’s the proclamation of the Greencode Project, referring to the environmental footprint of our industry
Film about El Ejido, Almeria’s main town
During the tour of Europe’s food industry presented in Erwin Wagenhofer’s documentary “We Feed the World”, there is a sequence about the greenhouses covering Almeria.