Documentary

Manthia Diawara follows Édouard Glissant whose theories of creolization, diversity and otherness are considered as seminal texts for the emerging studies of multiculturalism, identity politics, minority literature and Black Atlanticism.Read More »

Destruction in Ukraine war shown through lengthy tableaux. Soldiers’ phone calls to families reveal parallel world. Sound and image confront one another.Read More »

Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements.Read More »

Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus is a gift to biographical independent cinema and the women’s movement plus the cause for diversity and community. It’s truly a global music film on top of being a story of one person or many- her family, friends, her colleagues, the director plays a part- oh- It’s fresh in my mind but honestly it’s such a wild experience which spans the 20th and 21st centuries and there is so much music and pathos packed into it. I would simply say that each part or scene tells a unique story and then all fit together and form a sensible narrative that makes a compelling portrait of someone we just discovered.Read More »

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That even within a dramaturgically relevant omission of the massive cinematic correspondence between Yamada and the painter Yamazaki Mikio, known as OFUKU (Film Letter) I-V (1986-2006), Yamada redefines his syntax for his travel films from the first half of the 1990s. His films become increasingly interwoven: the continuity of a body of work can actually be experienced here, even if it no longer seems desirable in modern times.Read More »

A Tibet mountaineering school recruits qualified residents from the two counties at the foot of Mount Everest only, and trains them to be mountain guide of the Everest.Read More »

The Pig, was shot in one blustery day on a small French farm in the Massif Central. Two separate camera and sound crews carefully recorded the slaughtering, dismemberment, and evisceration of a pig and its subsequent conversion into sausages. Eustache, perhaps more than any other French filmmaker, made it his business to get as much of French culture down on film as he could, and here he records a practice that has all but vanished in the face of industrialization. One of Eustache’s most beautiful films, the work is also notable for its vivid sound track, alive with the thick, unintelligible patois of the farm workers.Read More »

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This is a SERIOUS BBC documentary about tourettes syndrome that went on to become a cult-classic comedy, though you do feel guilty about laughing afterwards. This film follows around 16 year old John Davidson who suffers from full blown tourettes. Having self diagnosed myself as having a mild case of tourettes in my pre adolescent days i can completely empathize with poor John. Tourettes is basically overwhelming obssessive compulsions that are either vulgar and or odd little sounds shrieks etc, as you will see. In John’s case its yelling profanities at the top of his lungs at the oddest and most humourously entertaining times, yelping like a dog, spitting in peoples faces and blurting out every irrational and downright rude thought that enters his mind. My personal favourite is when he yells “mom your a slut” in the grocery store in front of an old lady. I found this HYSTERICAL…but at the same time i felt his pain and almost felt as if i should give into the compulsions as John does. This is great as both a documentary and for a good laugh.Read More »

A documentary about ‘van vdo’ , the vhs shop in 1990s the shop established the independent cinema scene for the audience by selling vhs of Indie American, European, Asian films. however, all of them is pirate and illegal.Read More »