documentary

LFF 2021: THE NEUTRAL GROUND: The Daily Show-Style Documentary On Confederate Legacy
LFF 2021: THE NEUTRAL GROUND: The Daily Show-Style Documentary On Confederate Legacy

CJ Hunt’s The Neutral Ground explores the political opposition and the debate surrounding Confederate statues across the US.

VAL: A Legacy Decades In The Making
VAL: A Legacy Decades In The Making

Edited from decades of footage that were self-shot by Kilmer himself, Val is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking.

NYFF 2021: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
NYFF 2021: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

The Velvet Underground wields the hands of time, recapturing and evolving into a time capsule of art within a new wave style of documentary.

TIFF 2021: FLEE: Animation as Therapy
TIFF 2021: FLEE: Animation as Therapy

Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee uses animation as a form of therapy for both its central subject and the audience.

Melbourne International Film Festival 2021: Keeping The Dream Alive
Melbourne International Film Festival 2021: Keeping The Dream Alive

Reporting back from MIFF 2021, Sean Fallon reviews Come Back Anytime, Set!, Stray, Ablaze and The Witches of the Orient!

HOMEROOM: The Youth Of A Nation
HOMEROOM: The Youth Of A Nation

Homeroom is empowering and it is inspiring, bringing a fresh perspective to the events of 2020 and to the future.

Chris Marker Centennial Trio: Berlin Ballade, Blue Helmet, Prime Time in the Camps
Chris Marker Centennial Trio: Berliner Ballade, Blue Helmet, Prime Time in the Camps

Politically charged and historically conscious, Chris Marker’s fertile imagination makes him one of the cinema’s most transcendent artists.

UNDER THE VOLCANO: Music History in The Most Unassuming of Places
UNDER THE VOLCANO: Music History in The Most Unassuming of Places

Under the Volcano chronicles the life of “Fifth Beatle” Sir George Martin’s secret recording studio in the Caribbean.

THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES: Conservationist Peter Wohlleben Speaks for The Trees
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES: Conservationist Peter Wohlleben Speaks for The Trees

In The Hidden Life Of Trees, conservationist Peter Wohlleben is a modern-day Lorax as he educates and speaks for the trees.

THE NEW BAUHAUS: The Legacy Of László Moholy-Nagy
THE NEW BAUHAUS: The Legacy Of László Moholy-Nagy

A creative exploration of the legacy of Moholy-Nagy, an artist who never became a household name and yet whose life’s work is nonetheless ever-present.

THE SURGE AT MOUNT SINAI: Humanity in the Heartache
THE SURGE AT MOUNT SINAI: Humanity in the Heartache

The Surge at Mount Sinai details the struggle early healthcare workers faced in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

BORDERLANDS: Human Stories Beyond Frontiers
BORDERLANDS: Human Stories Beyond Frontiers

In Borderlands, six lives have been woven together seamlessly to symbolize the continuum of life and inseparability of human agency.

Tribeca 2021, Report 2: Werewolves Within, The Kids, No Future & Ultrasound
Tribeca 2021, Report 2: Werewolves Within, The Kids, No Future & Ultrasound

In her final report, Kristy Strouse reviews Werewolves Within, The Kids, No Future & Ultrasound.

LFG: Equal Pay for Equal Play
LFG: Equal Pay for Equal Play

As a portrait of one of the higher-profile fights to close the gender pay gap, it gets the job done with gusto.

SOME KIND OF HEAVEN: Boomer Disney World
SOME KIND OF HEAVEN: Boomer Disney World

In Lance Oppenheim’s playful and otherworldly documentary, we get a peculiar glimpse of the lives of people seeking to escape into something utopian.