Commentary
Essays, commentaries and editorials on contemporary political questions (conflicts/peace, ecology/thinking, control/surveillance).
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard points to fresh dissent within oppressive regime. A television film gives us first-hand testimony from recent defectors.
DOX’s Willemien Sanders reports from an 18-month workshop. This is the first of three reports from the Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab
Three documentaries show that history can be understood in terms of time periods of different duration: A single event such as an airship trip…
Tension escalates between North and South Korea after the torpedoing of a South Korean military ship in May. In North Korea, prison camps, murder,…
What are the ethical dilemmas of telling real stories in war time? And, to what extent will filmmakers go to tell those stories?
Documentary’s effects span from long views of history to intimate life. A movie may rewrite the past through the present, or a documentary may…
At a seminar at the Nordic Panorama Film Festival in Reykjavik last autumn I learned that current media developments are threatening the survival of…
The New Frontier programme offers both installation space and film section. The space showcases media works that straddle the boundaries between art, cinema and…
Business model 2.0: get your personal audience to support your personal art. In the US filmmakers have managed to finance several films through the…