These scenes make us gasp, but what's the price of documentary 'gold'?
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A personal consideration of Bianca Stigter's Three Minutes - A Lengthening and the history that endures in images and archives.
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What can one read from the archival documentaries by Adam Curtis, like HyperNormalisation and Century of the Self?
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Netflix has arguably mastered a formula for documentary series with hits like Tiger King, but will the equation hold in the long run?
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Oscar Peterson: Black + White celebrates a Canadian icon, but reveals our ongoing discomfort with confronting this country's ongoing history of racism.
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How Selwyn Jacob, Sylvia D. Hamilton, and Sam Pollard broke barriers in documentary production and continue to fight for change in the film industry.
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Painting with John, How To with John Wilson, and All Gas No Brakes reinvent (documentary?) comedy.
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If Canada is to live up to its egalitarian promise, the mandate of the police and the security state must be radically rethought and restructured. In bearing witness and deepening understanding, documentaries
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An appreciation of late experimental film maverick Barbara Hammer who broke ground with formally inventive and daring works that emphasized lesbian visibility, including Superdyke, Maya Deren's Sink, and A Horse Is Not
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When so many media images favour images of Black death and trauma, films like Becoming and Hale County, This Morning, This Evening illustrate the complexities of portraying Black lives onscreen.
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