The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced that, as part of its Hidden Histories program, it'll be screening work by Ai Weiwei, "six long films which he refers himself to as 'social documentaries' and four documentary art videos. There is a remarkable difference between Ai's sometimes highly conceptual art videos and his social documentaries. For the latter, he acts — before and behind the camera — as a committed research journalist, persistent to bring injustice in the open." Ai Weiwei was, of course, arrested in Beijing earlier this year, imprisoned for 81 days and released in June, though he's still not allowed to leave Beijing. Hidden Histories will feature new work by other Chinese documentary filmmakers as well, including He Yuan, Yu Guangyi and Xu Tong. The 41st edition of the Iffr runs from January 25 through February 5.
More events. Craig Baldwin for the San Francisco Cinematheque on this evening's program: "The selection of...
More events. Craig Baldwin for the San Francisco Cinematheque on this evening's program: "The selection of...
- 11/18/2011
- MUBI
For the first time this year, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, which began on October 6, is hosting a Film Critics’ Workshop. Six participants—three writing in Japanese, three writing in English—were chosen to watch, discuss, and write about documentary films under the mentorship of professional critics. Starting today and continuing for the next three days, the English-language texts from the workshop will appear in Notebook.
Here is the first batch of reports from one of the world’s outstanding documentary film festivals, by three writers who are relatively new to writing about cinema.
Stranger in My Own City: Sameera Jain’s My Own City
I am in my own city, but why do people keep gazing at me like a stranger? This is the constant incongruity haunting the experience of the leading character, a female driver in Delhi, of My Own City (Mera Apna Sheher).
The use of...
Here is the first batch of reports from one of the world’s outstanding documentary film festivals, by three writers who are relatively new to writing about cinema.
Stranger in My Own City: Sameera Jain’s My Own City
I am in my own city, but why do people keep gazing at me like a stranger? This is the constant incongruity haunting the experience of the leading character, a female driver in Delhi, of My Own City (Mera Apna Sheher).
The use of...
- 10/9/2011
- MUBI
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