music
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Ramallah, Tblisi, Tehran: The women driving their electronic music culture
MUSIC: A trio of short documentaries traverse Tbilisi, Ramallah, and Tehran, giving an on the ground look at how what each represents within a global electronic music industry and the women who have made it so.
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About white men and machines
AI: Recent developments in the field of intelligent machines clearly demand a reflection. The latest book by Arthur I. Miller is dedicated to this, but it only partially fulfills its promise.
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Afghan air guitar and expat metal: a scene is created in RocKabul
CULTURE: A documentary tells the story of the rise of the first Afghan metal band and their fall under the weight of the ultra-conservative society that surrounds them.
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The making of AURORA
Once Aurora paints a picture of an industry of men intent on using the young Norwegian artist AURORA as a tool to further their own ambitions more than to nurture her own creative independence.
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Fragments of experience
MUSIC: Across Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC, musician PJ Harvey and photojournalist Seamus Murphy craft a beautifully shot, sensitively edited film on observation, experience, and the creative process.
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A perverted portrait of an artist
The Artist & The Pervert is a somewhat atypical portrait of an artist that tells less about composer Georg Friedrich Haas’ microtonal music then it does about his BDSM-based relationship with his wife.
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The overlooked «in-betweener»
Two highlights of Doclisboa 2018 were documentaries from an often-overlooked category – the mid-length film.
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A pop doc out of the ordinary
BIOGRAPHY: «Why are you a problematic pop star? » director Stephen Loveridge asks M.I.A. in his documentary. The answers provided by the film point towards more than an uncompromising and sometimes challenging personality.
