San Francisco
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Claiming back the free commons of film
PROPERTY Filmmaker Richard Misek is on a mission to tear down the bars that keep historic images locked away behind paywalls.
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About early female travelers and their travelogues
INTERVIEW: An interview with Courtney Stephens, the director of the film essay Terra Femme, about her work with archival films, female gaze and early amateur travelogues.
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The agonising campaign for truth
CONTROL: A chilling glimpse into the murderous reality of China's suppression of meditation movement Falun Gong.
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CRAIG BALDWIN: Prank doc maker, activist and media archeologist
Craig Baldwin is not dead yet. The high priest of found-footage free association has made a three-decade career of imploding the very notion of the documentary form. Thomas Logoreci gets the California-born iconoclast to reveal the imaginative method behind his chaotic collage creations.
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SAN FRANCISCO 2012: A real desire for understanding
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has earned a reputation for bold programming. Panelists discuss Jewish identity, values, and politics. Occasionally, the documentaries screened at the festival have provoked protest and anger from within the Jewish American community
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SAN FRANCISCO 2010: Population–migration–globalization
The united Nations Association Film Festival is not for the faint of heart. Several films focus on migration and climate changes. Many people in the Pacific will become climate refugees, and what will become of all the child migrants who leave their families?