I’ve written at length, here and elsewhere, about 3 Islands, an experimental documentary by Taiwanese female filmmaker and artist Lin…
A Yangtze Landscape (Xu Xin, 2017)
Festivalscope is giving access, till mid April, to some of the documentaries screened at this year edition of Cinéma du…
My favourite documentaries of 2016
2016 has been a busy year and unfortunately, and for various reasons (one of them being the place where I…
Forgetting Vietnam ( Trinh T. Minh-ha, 2015)
Writing about Trinh T. Minh-ha, one of the most significant filmmakers, cultural theorists and artists active today, was something I…
On the Road: A Document ドキュメント 路上(Tsuchimoto Noriaki, 1964)
One of the towering figures in Japanese documentary, Tsuchimoto Noriaki began his career as a documentarist, like many of his…
Documentary in East and Southeast Asia, a list/database
Few months have passed since I’ve launched here on the blog, a project to create a list of the most…
Autumn madness: Kobe Doc Fest, Ogawa Production in London and much more
It’s again Autumn madness, that time of the year when there are more cinema-related events around the world than stars…
Some thoughts on 3 Islands (Lin Hsin-I, 2015)
I finally had the time to rewatch 3 Islands, an experimental documentary directed in 2015 by Lin Hsin-I, a…
We Shall Overcome 「戦場ぬ止み」available on DVD
Just a short post to announce that our friends at Zakka Films are putting out on DVD another interesting…
East and Southeast Asian documentaries, a list/database of the most significant works
updated September 14th 2016 In the past few days I was online looking for list(s) about East and Southeast…
