This feels like a pretty observation of a unique community that ultimately doesn’t really say anything.
Continue readingAs the Tide Comes In (Før Stormen)(2023)
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Intercepted (2024)
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I found this documentary hard going. If I’d seen it at the start of the festival and less tired, I might have been awed by the technique of overlapping footage with disconnected but meaningful audio.
Continue readingMenus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023)
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No Other Land (2024)
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I remember feeling similarly shell-shocked after For Sama. There is something devastatingly compelling about first person footage during wartime and with No Other Land, it wasn’t even officially a war.
Continue readingSecret Mall Apartment (2024)
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This is one of those delightful stories you can’t believe is true but you’re so glad it is.
Continue readingBlack Box Diaries (2024)
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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 readingFlathead (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.
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