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‘Ghost in the Machine’ Documentary Review – Film is Almost Too Hot to Handle

It’s very normal for documentaries to begin and end with copious lists of the various production companies who have contributed to or enabled its making. As director Valerie Veatch pointed out in her Sundance Film Festival Q&A, Ghost in the Machine has none of these. She had to fund the …

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‘Jaripeo’ Documentary – The Film Unveils a Previously Hidden Queer Experience

It’s not so much that Jaripeo is therapy – a reductive way to think about documentary, especially when the director is documenting their own experiences – but Jaripeo is maybe the first time some of its participants have ever been asked to think about the things they do. This is, …

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‘To Hold a Mountain’ Documentary Film Review: The Daily Life and the Political Fight in Montenegro

The legendary filmmaker Robert Flaherty made history with his documentary Nanook of the North, a pioneering film, considered the first non-fiction work. Despite the controversies and claims of its stagings, it establishes the medium’s interest in the study of the human organization and the different cultures. A century later, we …

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‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’ Documentary Film Review – When Ordinary People Step Up

It’s only January but Scottish documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street is a very serious contender for best documentary of the year. It’s rare to feel a documentary so firmly plant the seed of possibility in the mind of its audience. But there are three things audiences need to know in …

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‘The Oldest Person in the World’ Documentary Review: Sam Green on Longevity and the Inevitability of Death

In 2022, the Academy-nominated documentary Filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground) impressed the audiences with a sonic experiment in his 32 Sounds. Mixed as an experiment to watch at the theater and scenes where the sound echoes differently in each soundbar, it illustrates how, underneath the technical experimentation, Green’s films …

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