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Escape from Danish colonialism

Hans Henrik Fafner / November 4, 2020

COLONIALISM: Greenlanders upend past patterns while exploring culture and identity

Arctic, Beijing, Chinese, colonialism, copenhagen, CPH:DOX, Denmark, drug abuse, Greenland, IDFA, Inuit, Kenneth Sorento, Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Nuuk, post-colonial, Spain, suicide, The Fight for Greenland, Ulrik Gutkin

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The magic of documentary filmmaking

Astra Zoldnere / June 9, 2020

CINEMA: Some of the most talented documentary directors from around the world offer perspective on their approach to filmmaking.

Alanis Obomsawin, animal rights, Berlinale, Chinatown, Chris Hegedus, cinema, D.A. Pennebaker, Europe, Frederick Wiseman, Hubert Sauper, immigration, Joshua Oppenheimer, Lampedusa, Migration, Penny Lane, post-colonial, refugee, Sophie Fiennes, South Sudan

Colonial voyeurism revisited

Nina Trige Andersen / February 16, 2019

COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new.

Africa, African, African Mirror, Berlinale, Cameroon, colonial, colonialism, colonisers, diaries, exoticness, exploitation, filmmaker, letters, Mischa Hedinger, photographer, post-colonial, primitivism, public speaker, rehabilitation, René Gardi, representation, self-assertion, Simone Baumann, Swiss, Switzerland, Thessaloniki, tourism, travel writer, Urs Augstburger, vogue, voyeurism