Porto/Post/Doc
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The third message
BIOGRAPHY: By focusing on her artistic approach to language, the complex and multi-layered Nobel laureate also reveals the deep contradictions of her native Austria.
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Porto/Post/Doc announces full programme details for 2022 festival
After announcing initial programme details, including the works of #Márta Mészáros#, #Miklós Jancsó# and #Sierra Pettengill# (Riotsville, USA), Porto/Post/Doc has announced its full schedule for the 2022 festival, held between 16 – 26 November. Opening the festival will be Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, a film directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine,…
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Porto/Post/Doc announces first programme details for 2022 edition
Porto/Post Doc, held between 16 – 26 November, has announced the first aspects of its 2022 programme. American archivist and filmmaker #Sierra Pettengil# will be honoured with a retrospective on the dangers of a history that repeats itself. Her alert cinema style holds ability to put the past in dialogue with the present in a…
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Portrait of an artist and activist
BIOGRAPHY: Laura Poitras' Venice winner is a poignant and captivating portrait of the American artist and activist Nan Goldin.
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Stones from space and the meaning of life
UNIVERSE: Behind the search for abundant fallen meteorites in the Moroccan desert lies the fragments of human complexity.
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The spiral of unrest and power
LAW ENFORCEMENT: In a collage of archival tapes, delve into the stormy era of the 1960s in the United States with a detailed investigation of the period's incidents and their public reception through the lens of police militarization.
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Tied to the land
PALESTINE: The petty politics of Palestinian persecution – seen through the lens of age-old traditions of foraging for medicinal herbs.
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Choices of war
CONFLICT: Sergei Loznitsa’s sombre documentary, The Natural History of Destruction, re-examines the heavy bombing of British and German cities during World War Two, posing the question – ‘is it morally acceptable to kill civilian populations as a means of war?’
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Suspended in middair
UKRAINE: A small group of social workers work to create a much-needed safe space for children to live in.