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Make it rain: a new chance for short documentaries?
Could the proliferation of online platforms finally mean (some) gold in them short films, asks Charlie Lyne?
Wednesday 5 July 2017 -
Visions on: creative documentary at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017
Under new chief programmer Luke Moody, Britain’s biggest (and broadest) documentary festival reinforces its interest in documentary cinema’s artistic edge. By Ben Nicholson.
Wednesday 5 July 2017 -
Nineteen sixty-seven and all that: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017 rewinds 50 years
The spirit of the Summer of Love was revived in Sheffield this year, with films exploring subjects from the bohemian counterculture to revolutionary politics past and present, writes Christina Newland.
Wednesday 5 July 2017 -
Realm of the senses: alternate realities at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017
The VR stories at this year’s showcase offered more than just 360-degree visuals – visitors were immersed in a world of scents, sounds and emotions, writes Marisol Grandon.
Friday 30 June 2017 -
Watching the pavilions at Venice’s Biennale Arte 2017
Installations by artists including Christian Marclay and Candice Breitz brought a flavour of cinema to the 57th Venice Biennale, from film stars telling refugee stories, to an exploded truck in three acts, writes Eve Gabereau.
Wednesday 28 June 2017 -
Damien Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable: anatomy of a blockbuster
The artist’s hollow, gargantuan Venice exhibition proves nothing more than that thinking like a movie mogul is a good way to make a killing in the art world, writes Jacqui Davies.
Wednesday 28 June 2017 -
“We will be the mainstream”: female filmmakers talk revolution in Seoul
At the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, a new generation of politically engaged feminists flocked to see female directors and their trailblazing films, reports Sophie Mayer.
Tuesday 27 June 2017 -
Lost in the filters: social media past and present at Oberhausen
The German short film festival celebrated examples of ‘social’ media before the age of Twitter, Facebook et al. So how better for Kevin B. Lee to report on the event than via Instagram?
Tuesday 6 June 2017 -
Six films by new and emerging female filmmakers at Cannes 2017
The competition may have been lacklustre overall but that wasn’t the case elsewhere at Cannes, where the sidebars were brimming with great films by first- and second-time female directors, reports Isabel Stevens. Distributors take note!
Friday 2 June 2017 -
What should have won the 2017 Cannes Palme d’Or?
With the partial exception of Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, there was no consensus amongst our critics on the Croisette.
Sunday 28 May 2017
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