REALITY: We perceive reality very differently. So let me suggest three areas where reality is real, strong and direct for all of us. But also about what a newly translated book by Pier Paolo Pasolini says about film's contact with reality.
AFRICA: For capitalists, disruption opens the door to new power and new revenues: People, society and nature are reduced to raw material. Author Achille Mbembe's horizon is always the broadest possible - the cosmic, earth-historical, and planetary. Despite all the harrowing problems, Africa is conjured up as a vibrant world centre that still has power in reserve, teeming with wildlife, and a wealth of cultures.
TECH: As society suffers from increased digital anxiety and ecological collapse, Big Tech continues to push its nostalgia-based feedback loop of utopian myth.
PHILOSOPHY: Our editor Truls Lie has interviewed Jean Baudrillard earlier in Oslo – and since a lot have asked for access, we have republished it and a video here.
The international documentary market and forum, Sunny Side of the Doc, has released its official selection for the 2024 edition. This year's selection features...
ELECTIONS: Tricked by cynical populists' fake commitments for their own obscure ends, the elderly residents of an entire village in Georgia are left toothless, figuratively and literally.
RUSSIA: Victory Day in Russia in 2022 – barely six weeks after Putin's invasion of Ukraine – plays out the same tired old themes of the Red Army's victory over Nazism in 1945, with those celebrating eagerly taking up the new propaganda of victory.