‘In the Waves’ Finds Peace and Wisdom in the Waves of Cape Breton Island
Jacquelyn Mills’s portrait of her grandmother is at once abstract and intimate.
Daniel Walber
‘In the Waves’ Finds Peace and Wisdom in the Waves of Cape Breton Island
Camden International Film FestivalJacquelyn Mills’s portrait of her grandmother is at once abstract and intimate.Joan Alma Mills sits with her husband at a small table in their Nova Scotia home. The e…
‘Taste of Cement’ Is an Impressionistic Portrait of Syrian Workers in Exile
Ziad Kalthoum’s cinema soars above Beirut to capture the uncanny experience of absence.
‘Taste of Cement’ Is an Impressionistic Portrait of Syrian Workers in Exile
Camden International Film FestivalZiad Kalthoum’s cinema soars above Beirut to capture the uncanny experience of absence.Many documentary filmmakers find their most compelling artistic truth in the “s…
An Update from The Cove: ‘A Whale of a Tale’ Finds Little Changed in Taiji
Filmmaker Megumi Sasaki shows how neither the media craze nor the dolphin hunt has ceased.It has been more than seven years since The Cove won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film …
‘Risk’ Is a Perceptive, Subtle Portrait of Power and Posture
Billed by some as a prequel to ‘Citizenfour,’ Laura Poitras’s new film has a much more complex relationship to her previous work.In October 2012, Lady Gaga paid a visit to Julian Assange at the Ecuado…
Notes from Art of the Real: What Critics Can Learn from Great Programming
Let’s leave the issue film and its accompanying straw men behind. A new Cinematic Nonfiction is already here and it has brought some giant owls.Documentary critics have a tendency to describe good fil…
Peering for Nonfiction in the Erotic Webcam Milieu of ‘The Human Surge’
This bold new experimental feature is a documentary of its own making.Jacques Rivette once said that every film is a documentary about its own making, an observation that has become quite the convenie…
‘Kedi’ is the Feline Spiritual Awakening You’ve Been Waiting For
Finally, something better than cat videos.
Three Beautiful New Latin American Documentaries Paint Portraits with Sound
Surire, Site of Sites, and Black Sun are highlights of this year’s Neighboring Scenes showcase.Salt flats are truly bizarre ecosystems, fields of mineral deposits under vast expanses of sky. The Salar…