#documentary cinema

[oldfilmsflicker]

Since this film debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February, where it won both the Panorama Audience Award and the Best Documentary Award, in this country we have seen an active service member self-immolate in protest of the U.S. Army's part in the genocide currently happening in Gaza. Despite the act being broadcast on livestream, the media misrepresented his intentions, and, in what seemed like minutes, the country moved on. In a world where video footage as a tool to speak truth to power seems to have lost its efficacy, No Other Land exists more as a form of resistance. As a form of witness. As proof of the Palestinian people's unwavering endurance, and as a document of their very existence.

[KVIFF Review] This is a Story of Power: "No Other Land"

[okimargarvez]

That time when I studied Documentary cinema (how the analysis came out)

If you like my analysis, you should thank Bill Nichols.

Other pic post

[firstclassmovies]

THE ATOMIC CAFE (1982). This documentary was the first to compile footage from the nuclear war preparation footage of the 1950s.

[firstclassmovies]

THE MAKING OF FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1984). Ingmar Bergman directs a documentary about himself making Fanny and Alexander.

[firstclassmovies]

GAP-TOOTHED WOMEN (1987). Les Blank directs a documentary about women with space between their front teeth.

[firstclassmovies]

POTO AND CABENGO (1980). Jean-Pierre Gorin documents twin girls who seem to speak to each other in a secret language.

[firstclassmovies]

THE PUTIN INTERVIEWS (2017). Oliver Stone watches Dr. Strangelove with Vladimir Putin.

[firstclassmovies]

LET IT FALL: LOS ANGELES 1982-1992 (2017). John Ridley documents the events leading up to the 1992 L.A. Riots.