Milisuthando is an engrossing essay film that probes South African apartheid, Blackness, and identity through a personal collage of archives and memories.
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White Noise, now streaming for free from the National Film Board of Canada, is Simon Beaulieu's unnerving essay film about the end of the world.
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Jessica Kingdon's Ascension is a striking visual essay about the fallacy of dreams and human costs of capitalism.
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Where does technology and childhood coalesce? Perhaps it’s in the eyes of a young boy, staring with lack of emotion into his future. The boy, with a bowl cut of blonde hair,
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Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Archipelago is an animated essay that navigates territories real and imagined while interrogating the mythology and history of Quebec.
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"I think most people’s relationship to technology has shifted through the pandemic. On the one hand, we’re very grateful that we have the technology we have and, at the same time, I
Keep ReadingLast and First Men (Iceland, 71 min.) Dir. Jóhann Jóhannsson A highlight in the great world of parody Twitter accounts is the now tragically defunct handle @NotTildaSwinton. This take on the eccentric Oscar-winning
Keep ReadingAquarela (UK/Germany/Denmark/Russia, 94 min.) Dir. Victor Kossakovsky Numerous journalists, advocates, scientists, and environmentalists speculate that water scarcity will be the cause for World War III. However, Aquarela makes a compelling case that water will wage
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 ReadingKristen Johnson's Cameraperson is an entertaining, engaging work, which is surely one of the finest non-fiction films of the year.
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