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Colonial voyeurism revisited
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.
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What do you really know about Donbass? (Other than what you read in the news)
Loznitsa's journey through the Donbass region is composed of a series of crazy adventures in which the grotesque and the tragic merge.
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His theatre of thought
Slavoj Žižek’s philosophy in this film continually refers to sequences in films, but also Immanuel Kant, hardcore pornography, Wagner and caffeine-free coffee.
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FRANÇOIS VERSTER: How to Assemble Your Emmy Award
In September 2006, South African filmmaker François Verster’s documentary “A Lion’s Trail” won an Emmy for “the most outstanding cultural and artistic programming”.
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VISIONS DU RÉEL 2006: Of Flesh and Blood
The films at the 2006 Visions du réel festival inspired reflections on how to represent suffering in documentaries.
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FERNANDO SOLANAS: Beyond the Commercial Censorship
Fernando Solanas is a filmmaker who has also served as a member of Argentina’s national parliament.
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AVANT-GARDE ARCHIVE FILM: Seeing without Knowing
Susana de Sousa Dias uses only twelve minutes of archive footage in her 72-minute archive-based film “Still Life”