Knit’s Island
A trio of documentarians traverse the forbidding digital landscapes of an online survivalist video game to explore the communities that have emerged there in this verité machinima, Knit’s Island.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Oct 7, 2023 | Festivals, Leipzig 2023 |
A trio of documentarians traverse the forbidding digital landscapes of an online survivalist video game to explore the communities that have emerged there in this verité machinima, Knit’s Island.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 27, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023, Verdict Shorts |
Angelica Maria Torres Tamayo works through a personal tragedy in Pirsas, a deeply affecting documentary about a family trauma and the prospect of recovery.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 7, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023 |
The freewheeling independence of the open road is given a Gen-Z spin in the Ross Brothers’ kinetic and affecting hybrid documentary, Gasoline Rainbow.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 17, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2023 |
The quietude of a bucolic life, and the deep wordless bonds between a mother and son, lie at the heart of Giorgi Parkosadze’s serene doc, ‘Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer.’
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 16, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023, Verdict Shorts |
The long fingers of the Kosovo War reach into the present in Sovran Nrecaj’s patient and stark documentary about Fran and Verka’s isolated life in an abandoned village.
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