I don’t think I’ve ever seen a documentary quite like this before, where the subject is the filmmaker and the act of making the film is one of such courage.
Continue readingBlack Box Diaries (2024)
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Flathead (2024)
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If you like a documentary that is about giving the subjects agency in how their story is told, then Flathead is not for you.
Continue readingGaucho Gaucho (2024)
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Directors Micheal Dweek and Gregory Kershaw take us into the sparse remote world of Argentine gauchos (and one gaucha).
Continue readingCommunity to Commercial – Restored Australian Music Videos
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Ray Argall introduced this showing of his personal collection of films from the 80s that he has been restoring.
Continue readingA New Kind of Wilderness (2024)
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This one is a bit of a weepy. I went in thinking it was about off grid living and homeschooling – raising children in nature – but it’s actually as much about grief.
Continue readingLike My Brother (2024)
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Dahomey (2024)
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Teaches of Peaches (2024)
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I am in love with Peaches! I don’t know how I have missed out on this phenomenal woman.
Continue readingOccupied City (2023)
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A four hour documentary is always going to have its challenges. Steve McQueen (Hunger (2008)) takes a deep dive into the recorded history of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam by overlaying a narrated retelling with a river of footage of the city in 2020 and 2021.
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