Tag: Documentary
In 1966, the director Claude Jutra made The Devil’s Toy, a pioneering skateboarding film that was dedicated “to all victims of intolerance.” Yesterday, the National Film Board of Canada, which commissioned the film, debuted The Devil’s Toy Redux, a series of 14 documentaries from directors around the world that reimagine Junta’s classic. A slick interactive interface lets you […]
The Internet’s Own Boy, a crowdfunded documentary about the late internet hero Aaron Swartz, recently debuted at Sundance and will see theatrical/VOD release June 27. The trailer above focuses on Swartz’s later years — specifically, his protest against SOPA/PIPA and the criminal case against him after he downloaded millions of articles from the academic research database […]
“We’re classified as a cemetery but I’d like to think of us as more of a hospital… caring for patients that are metabolically challenged,” says Ben Best, who was the President and CEO of the Cryonics Institute during the making of this short documentary. Brooklyn Underground Films’ We Will Live Again follows Best through the facility where he says […]
The new documentary Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case documentary (directed by Andreas Johnsen) begins where Never Sorry left off. It focuses on the questionable charges, constant surveillance, police harassment and further censorship that the rebellious artist faced after being kidnapped and imprisoned by government goons. After 81 days of solitary detention world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest. […]
Rehad Desai’s Miners Shot Down documentary feature just premiered at the One World Film Festival 2014 in Prague. Using unedited news and archival footage and testimonies, the film exposes the 2012 massacre of workers at the Lonmin-owned platinum mine in Marikana. The police had opened fire on protesting miners and killed 34, then falsified documents and testimonies. Some of the […]
Here’s the trailer for Gowanus, a new documentary about the eponymous Brooklyn canal by filmmaker Jessica Philipps. From the looks of it, there’s little to sway us from the vision of the Gowanus as an unspeakably filthy waterway that desperately needs cleaning up. Says one researcher: “We’ve seen things in the water in Gowanus that we’ve […]
Co-directors Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s beautiful new documentary film Watermark opens in New York on April 4th. Here’s the US trailer. At about 0:30, you will have feelings. You will see sweeping aerial shots of Colorado River’s barren desert delta in 5K ultra high-definition video. You will watch a construction time-lapse at the Xiluodu, the biggest arch dam in the […]
Cheryl Dunn’s Everybody Street sets out to be a kind of definitive documentary on street photography, shadowing some of the most legendary practitioners — from Jill Freedman and Mary Ellen Mark to Bruce Gilden and Elliot Erwitt, as well as ANIMAL favorites Martha Cooper and Boogie. Its focus is their experience on the streets of New York […]
Chuck Norris vs. Communism, a documentary by Romanian filmmaker Ilinca Calugareanu, tells the story of the mysterious voice that countless Romanians heard dubbed over the illegal, black market VHS tapes they watched growing up in the USSR. The Republic that kept a very tight guard on what media was distributed to the public had overlooked the videotape. […]
The Creator Of The Jungle is a documentary film by Jordi Morató, freshly premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam. The film follows an eccentric man named “Garrell” who has been building giant, immaculate jungle-like structures and towers in a Spanish forest, for kicks and catharsis. The archival footage used in the film shows him dressing […]
