Commentary

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

  • A RISING STAR

    Turkish documentary flourishes in an increasingly polarized political climate.

  • REPORT: BURMA

    Producer and international documentary ambassador Peter Wintonick recounts his findings as a jury member at the First Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival…

  • THE PUNK CHILD OF ART: SEEING AND BEING SEEN

    Like a band of filmic pirates, the Sensory Lab plunders what they need from documentary to create something fresh. These are musings arisen from…

  • What happens in the mix?

    DOX:LAB experiments with hybrid forms of filmmaking, enabling crossovers, not only between directors and cultures, but also between storytelling and languages of film.

  • DOCUMENTS FROM THE U.S

    We are drawing a line through three films from Sundance this year: politics, economics, and the Occupy Movement.

  • A contemplative look at Peru’s recent political history

    A few years back, Pamela Cohn met director Heddy Honigmann for a talk about her then newly released documentary, El Olvido.

  • A tendency and some expectations

    EDITORIAL: After my four years as editor, let me end by sharing two perspectives.

  • His theatre of thought

    Slavoj Žižek’s philosophy in this film continually refers to sequences in films, but also Immanuel Kant, hardcore pornography, Wagner and caffeine-free coffee.

  • The don drapers of manipulation

    We don’t want to be fooled by commercials. But rational thinking cannot decide what our reptilian brain wants to do. This is what neuromarketing…

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