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Modern Times Review

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Docs and de-powering

Truls Lie / February 21, 2020

FESTIVALS: Can documentaries be a part of de-powering – «destitution» – most needed in today’s power-driven societies?

African Americans, Chechnya, China, Cinéma du réel, competition, conflicts, consumerism, control, destitution, ecological, Extinction Rebellion, Festivals, HUMAN idff Oslo, iHUMAN, Martin Heidegger, michel foucault, Modern Times Review, Muslims, One World CZ, Philosophical, refugees, Russia, Scars, surveillance, Uyghurs?

The houses we were, the cities we are

Neil Young / November 24, 2018

Two important but very different documentaries from 2018 showcase the power of the short film form.

AAMOD, Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico, Arianna Lodeserto, artist, Bicycle Thieves, blues, capitalist, capitalist adversity, capitalists, Cesare Zavattini, cinema, communist, Communist Party, corruption, dialogue, ecology, Edinburgh International Film Festival, essay, European Film Festival Palić, eviction, exhibitions, exploitation, Francesco Rosi, Hands Over the City, History Film Festival Rijeka, ironic, Italy, Japanese, kaleidoscopic, miniatures, Modern Times Review, montage, nocturnal, Ny Tid, oppression, Philosophical, photographic, photography, Rome, short documentaries, short films, slow cinema, The Houses We Were, Tokyo, Ugo Adilardi, urban, Vittorio De Sica, Yuka Sato

More than human

Truls Lie / November 11, 2018

ENVIRONMENT: Peter Mettler is known for his intuitive and experimental film making. The new film Becoming Animal has also an ecological and philosophical depth, as it involves the Canadian philosopher David Abram.

animism, Arne Næss, Becoming Animal, Buddhist, camping, Canada, Canadian, collaborators, Cosmology, David Abram, Docudays UA, ecopsychology, ecosystem, elk, Emma Davie, environment, experiment, Gambling, geology, Global Justice, Gods and LSD, Grand Teton, Greenpeace, human world, IDFA, India, intellect, Modern Times Review, Peter Mettler, Petropolis, philosopher, physicist, Picture of Light, producers, psychiatrist, Scottish, seminar, Statoil, Switzerland, technology, Tectonic Plates, The Spell of the Sensuous, theatre, University of Oslo, USA, wilderness, wildlife, Wyoming

Affiliated With” RFN and GFN.

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