Tehachapi
French visual artist and film-maker JR chronicles his grand-scale collaboration with the inmates of a maximum-security prison in his didactic but uplifting documentary ‘Tehachapi’.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Nov 13, 2023 | Festivals, IDFA 2023 |
A raw and immediate found-footage assemblage, ‘Limitation’ traces Russia’s hand in the coup that overthrew Georgia’s first post-Soviet president Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 12, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, IDFA 2023 |
Director Barbara Visser explores the controversial links between pioneering Dadaist artists Marcel Duchamp and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven in her lively, adventurous, unconventional documentary ‘Alreadymade’.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Nov 12, 2023 | Festivals, IDFA 2023, Verdict Shorts |
Sirin Bahar Demirel’s stimulating bricolage short, Between Delicate and Violent, combines archival imagery with animation to examine how pictures tell stories and whether they can be mined for truth.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Nov 12, 2023 | Festivals, IDFA 2023 |
Fear-stoking myths around wolves, back in Germany after a century, are dismantled in Ralf Bücheler’s doc ‘In Wolf Country’, appealing to nature management via science.
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