Prompted by several online comments describing it as a cinematic experience close to the works by The Sensory Ethnography Lab or…
From the archives: Kamei, Hani and Ogawa in two Italian publications (1967, 1970)
The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia (Experimental film centre) in Rome is one of the oldest cinema schools in the world…
Letter #69 (Lin Hsin-i, 2016)
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…
