Synthetic Sincerity
TECHNOLOGY: Blending science and cinema, Synthetic Sincerity follows AI researchers and migrants to ask what remains authentic when images and machines blur.
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TECHNOLOGY: A global portrait of digital natives switching personas across Zoom, gaming, and influencer culture, where online connection can feel more lived than offline life.
Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media
TECHNOLOGY: Grieving parents, whistleblowers, and lawyers expose a predatory industry rewarded for harm.
Encounters 2025 Documentary Festival announces provocative lineup for a world in crisis
The 27th edition of the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival returns from 19 to 29 June 2025, promising a
Cyborg Generation
TECHNOLOGY: A personal journey into sensory expansion, DIY biohacking, and the radical politics of cyborg identity.
Frames of motherhood
MOTHERHOOD: Exploring single motherhood, technology, and self-expression, ‘Motherboard’s captures intimate moments using iPhones, blurring boundaries between life and technology.
Ji.hlava IDFF announces first titles, retrospectives, opening film for 2024 edition
The 28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, set to take place from 25 October to 3 November 2024, has announced
Sunny Side of the Doc announces 2024 official selection highlighting global documentary projects
The international documentary market and forum, Sunny Side of the Doc, has released its official selection for the 2024 edition.
CPH:DOX INTER:ACTIVE: Intersections of flesh and code
REPORT: When CPH:DOX opened its doors for its 21st instalment between 13 and 24 March 2024, it centred on issues ranging from fertility, ableism, discrimination and trauma, regarding the body as a site of socio-political conflict.
Ethics for humanity to come
ETHICS: In the era of technology, the Western roots in Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions lose enchantment. Umberto Galimberti advocates for an ethics of aimless wandering, denouncing dominance and embracing a cosmopolitan, biocentric view that life on the earth is the measure of all things.
The wheels of platform capitalism
WORK: Ethnography meets animation in a playful digital environment concealing the constraints of the algorithmic gig economy.