What can one read from the archival documentaries by Adam Curtis, like HyperNormalisation and Century of the Self?
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TIFF’s annual Wavelengths programme is one of few opportunities for Torontonians (and Canadians) to see work on the bleeding edge of film aesthetics in such a concentrated burst. It’s also, I would
Keep ReadingSans bruit, les figurants du désert from Collectif MML pays tribute to the actors of Ouarzazate, a cinematic underclass acting out Western fantasies of the Other.
Keep ReadingThe Wild Frontier (L’héroïque lande, la frontière brûle) takes a different approach to representing migrants in ‘the Jungle’.
Keep ReadingFirst things first: Wavelengths, the experimental and avant-garde program curated by Andréa Picard, is pretty clearly the best thing TIFF has going for it. Here, as nowhere else, the celebrity-centric mediocrity of
Keep ReadingNot all of TIFF’s docs end up in TIFF Docs. In recent years, many of the festival’s most interesting documentaries have been screened in the avant-garde program, Wavelengths. This year is no different: with
Keep ReadingBeyond the One (Al di là dell’uno) (Italy/France/Germany Dir. Anna Marziano Programme: Wavelengths (World Premiere) Wavelength regular Anna Marziano’s latest film is 53 minutes long, placing it in the somewhat neglected,
Keep ReadingCommissioned as a documentary about the director’s prairie hometown, My Winnipeg proceeds from the simple premise that a city is nothing without its ghosts: the mass of memories, legends and fictions that
Keep ReadingIn the Oscar-winning Ryan, Chris Landreth and Ryan Larkin sit together in a computer-generated cafeteria as they go over Larkin’s past: his artistic achievements, his loves, his brief moments of recognition.
Keep ReadingTadhg O’Sullivan’s The Great Wall provokes curiosity as a doc about the migrant crisis and the fortification European borders, based on a 1917 story by Franz Kafka
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