Tag: Documentary
Here’s a new trailer for 20,000 Days, the unique quasi-documentary starring Nick Cave from Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. The film is a sort of enhanced version of reality. Nick Cave recounts his thoughts and experiences to a fictional (we assume) therapist, as we see snippets of his creative process. Drama and reality combine in a fictitious […]
Shield And Spear, a new documentary by Petter Ringbom, explores the continuing transformation of South Africa via the stories of its artists. The film, which will screen at the Durban International Film Festival, sets the end of apartheid as a starting point of a story that’s continuing to unfold, in a place where “every freedom must be […]
The documentary A Brony Tale is about men who like My Little Pony, which is an imaginative quirky cartoon for kids with some nice stuff in it. In the documentary, Ashleigh Ball, the voice of Applejack and Rainbow Dash on the 4th generation installment of Hasbro’s My Little Pony, goes to a brony convention and faces her very […]
We know why many Brazilians hate the World Cup, but here’s a closer look at how. Watch these short films of the anti-World Cup protests by the 12PM collective. They bring you into the scene with darkness and anxiety-producing sound design, creating a drama that more closely resembles a political thriller than a news clip. 12PM member Danilo […]
The Creeping Garden documentary follows artists, fringe scientists and mycologists who study the mysterious plasmodial slime mold — a non-animal, non-vegetable, non-fungi organisms that appears to be making intelligent decisions. Scored by Sonic Youth’s Jim O’Rourke (who scored Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man), it’s finally nearing completion. The slime mould is being used to explore biological-inspired design, emergence theory, unconventional computing and robot controllers, much […]
“Frankly, I hate Ghandi,” says a young woman in The World Before Her, a groundbreaking documentary by Indian filmmaker Nisha Pahuja. The film follows the parallel universes of young women competing in the Miss India beauty pageant, while their peers train as fighters in Hindu nationalist camps. On the issues entrenched in the film, Al Jazeera writes: […]
Even if you lived in New York while Louis Hardin aka Moondog was stationed on the corner of 6th Avenue and 54th Street, you might pass off the story as a typical eccentric tale of the city. But Moondog who busked and sold poetry dressed in Viking garb for 30 years, was much more than that. […]
The Unknown Known (2013) A portrait of an old man as an orchestrator of history. Master documentary filmmaker Errol Morris puts former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the spot to discuss his ’60s congressmanning to the whole 2003 invasion of Iraq thing WTF WAS THAT AMIRITE?!!?! THE BUILDING SENSATION THAT OUR REALITY […]
Rob Noisi has been building a time machine for a very long time, obsessively filing out the flourishes in this faux-Victorian construction. Physicist and author Ronald Mallett has been researching the mechanics and mathematics of time travel for a very long time. These are the subjects of Jay Cheel’s new documentary How To Build A Time […]
The Soviet national ice hockey team placed in every International Ice Hockey Federation tournament they competed in, won almost every world championship and Olympic tournament between 1954 and 1991, and are generally acknowledged as THE dominant hockey team that ever was. What did it take to be the best? Not fucking up. Ever. Not when […]
