Pirjo Honkasalo
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«Every documentary from this region is simply a labour of love, enthusiasm, solidarity within a film crew»
SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL: Modern Times Review speaks with Sarajevo Film Festival Documentary Programme programmer Rada Šešić on the documentaries in competition, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the place of Sarajevo Film Festival among the wider festival landscape, and more.
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DocPoint Helsinki announces full 2022 online festival programme
Finland’s DocPoint is organizing as a nationwide online festival for their 2022 edition, 31 January to 6 February 2022. Its opening event will be held in Kansalaistori Square in Helsinki city centre on 29 January and includes the screening of Susanna Helke’s latest film Ruthless Times – Songs of Care. DocPoint’s further propgramme consists of…
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«We like to think that even if DocPoint is small in resources, it’s big in content»
DOCPOINT: Artistic Director Kati Juurus on the challenges, trends, and the 2022 DocPoint experience.
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Film editing – classical or not?
Editorial: After 40 years as film editor, Niels Pagh Andersen now has written an inspiring book combined with video interviews with 8 filmmakers. What did he learn on this long voyage?
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NIELS PAGH: Body and breath
NIELS PAGH started his career as an assistant to two of Denmark’s most important editors: Christian Hartkopp and Janus Billeskov Jansen. Since 1979, freelance film editor, more than 250 films.
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Drifting in a sea of amiguity
According to Pirjo honkasalo: ”making the image is the documentary – the visual aesthetic is the essential part.” AS DOX’s Pamela Cohn comments, she is attached to the logic of the dream, and trusts the simple poetry of images.
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NEW DOCUMENTARIES: War Spaces
In The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo travels to Russia, Chechnya and Ingushetia, all fronts of the Chechen war.