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  • 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…

  • A massive «cover-up»

    A young filmmaker asks why osama Bin Laden was never on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. He also questions how close the ties between…

  • The mysterious Al Qaeda

    According to British documentarist Adam Curtis, in 2001 the US had a desperate need to create a new external enemy which could unite America…

  • The Syrian revolution

    Everyone has become a journalist in Syria now.

  • The enemy within

    We regard others with hostility, because we do not know or understand their goals, motives or means. Three films elaborates on people stepping out…

  • Drifting in a sea of amiguity

    According to Pirjo honkasalo: ”making the image is the documentary – the visual aesthetic is the essential part.” AS DOX’s Pamela Cohn comments, she…

  • Always on the outside

    Is anthropology to blame?

  • EDINBURGH 2010: About Absence

    The orangutan Nenette in Philibert’s film is like the Mona Lisa: a victim of her rarity, drained by curiosity. We watch her watching us…

  • CANNES 2010: How did it happen?

    How can cinema reflect and explain the complexities of the 2008 economic crisis, asks Emma Baus. Three films presented at Cannes this year may…

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