Sergei Loznitsa
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Totalitarian regimes
STALIN: Loznitsa's new film has several levels of gazes that organizes what the audience sees. A timely warning.
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The craft of documentary filmmaking
FOCUS: IDFA Programmer Laura van Halsema on «Focus: Re-releasing History».
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Day-to-day life amongst a pro-Russian battalion in Ukraine
Their Own Republic by Russian director Aliona Polunina caused quite a fury at this year‘s Doclisboa due to its pro-Russian stance. The documentary nonetheless offers an interesting insight into the side of the Ukrainian conflict rarely portrayed in western media.
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Archival disaster tourism
The archival footage from a court action against leading scientists in the Soviet Union of 1930 has been reconfigured into a narrative drama, which leads today‘s audience to believe the opposite of contemporary spectators.
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Useful idiots
Sergei Loznitsa’s most recent film contrasts the sombre with the celebratory at the yearly pro-Russia gathering on Victory Day at the Soviet Memorial in Berlin.
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Dying city
The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.