Commentary

Essays, commentaries and editorials on contemporary political questions (conflicts/peace, ecology/thinking, control/surveillance).

  • Stuxnet was basically waging war

    CYBER WARFARE: Countdown to Zero Day relates the story about Stuxnet, the world’s first public known digital weapon. The book raises important questions about…

  • THE CAMERA LENS AS A POLITICAL TOOL

    Italian political cinema will be discussed at Cinemateket in Oslo this weekend

  • The Specific Intellectual

    Is the role of intellectuals sometimes taken over by reflected filmmakers – and those old universal critics gone?

  • RAPHAEL SCHUTZ: Being the Israeli Ambassador to Norway

    The background for this interview were six, quite insistent, emails from the Israel Embassy in Norway, to end their Modern Times subscription, and have…

  • GOODPITCH: Where NGO meets documentary

    Profit-chasing predatory logging of the Brazilian rainforest, the pollution and changing living conditions of the Faroe Islands, and the violence of South-Sudan.

  • Staying with the trouble: the radical work of CAMP

    CAMP wants to challenge the triangular relationship of author, subject and technology, thereby splintering the privileged gaze and our standard mode of perception.

  • The careful look

    Art historian Louise Wolthers reflects on the performative aspects of documentary using this issue’s photo series as a case study.

  • DEFIANCE IS PRESENT

    Özge Calafato looks at some of the most compelling recent documentary works from the Arab World.

  • BEING PART OF THE CIRCLE

    Veteran filmmaker Joan Churchill was the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking Award at Camerimage, Poland’s prestigious International Film Festival of…

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