Commentary

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

  • TEL AVIV 2012: Reconciliation?

    What can a film festival in Tel Aviv teach us about the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians?

  • SUNDANCE 2012: Peeling the rotten onion

    Is the lure of materialism too strong? Who’s not paying federal income tax, an estimated 100 billion US dollars a year? ExxonMobil? Check. Bank…

  • IDFA 2012: Emotions

    Music as inspiration and the effects of musicophilia. Can music change people? Yes. Sometimes. Very Rarely. Just like love.

  • SHorter!

    In this issue of DOX we have two feature articles on short docs (pages 8-12), and a bundled DVD with seven shorts

  • Leacock’s non-intervention

    The exciting life of a true documentarian.

  • Gone is the “one screen” Logic

    Vertov was no fan of fiction films. He considered them a kind of “opium of the masses” with their manipulative content and dreamlike scenes.…

  • A unique monthly opportunity

    "The Moon Inside You" is a personal journey into the mysteries and many prejudices surrounding menstruation. But director Diana Fabiánová’s attempt to tell the…

  • A warning letter: The pyramids of our time

    Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami, leading to the nuclear accidents at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, have accelerated the immediacy of Michael Madsen’s newest…

  • The transmediale festival in Berlin: Making films  about themselves  making films

    The transmediale festival in Berlin is a quintessential summit for the discourse between art and digital culture. The “Immediated Autodocumentary” project – shot, edited…

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