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Issue 97

Art Against Oil: Brenda Longfellow’s “Offshore”

by Imre Szeman
August 24, 2015
Features

Brenda Longfellow’s Offshore is a documentary that sharply challenges our easy acceptance of our fossil-fuel societies

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DocLit: Screening Truth to Power

by David Davidson
July 7, 2015
Reviews

Cinema Politica’s book Screening Truth to Power catches Canada’s current cultural ferment.

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DocLit: “Documentary”

by Ezra Winton
July 7, 2015
Reviews

Although there is nothing new in the content, Documentary succeeds as an important curatorial intervention.

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Navigating Histories: The Films of Gary Marcuse

by Oliver Hockenhull
July 2, 2015
Essays

Gary Marcuse's films are notable for humanitarian reason, emotional listening, contextualized historical references and humanist psychology.

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The Interactive Paradox

by Sergeo Kirby
July 2, 2015
Industry

Does the interactive digital documentary (directly or indirectly) negatively affect the traditional narrative documentary?

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Documenting Epics

by Adam Nayman
June 18, 2015
Essays

Behind the scenes looks at Apocalypse Now, Fitzcarraldo, and Jodorowsky’s unfinished Dune reveal how docs about filmmaking can exceed the original films themselves.

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The POV Interview: Harold Crooks

by Judy Wolfe
April 16, 2015
Interviews

Harold Crooks discusses his documentary The Price We Pay, working with Brigitte Alepin, and the high cost of off-shore tax havens for Canada.

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The Far Fur Country Diaries

by Kevin Nikkel
April 16, 2015
Features

Kevin Nikkel's On the Trail of the Far Fur Country revisits old images from the Hudson Bay Company's archives and the Inuit history within.

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Interactive Docs for the Nonbelievers

by Marc Serpa Francoeur Robinder Uppal
March 9, 2015
Features/Industry

Although few conventional doc film projects get funded these days without some sort of interactive component, there are still plenty of grumblings among doc folk as to what all the fuss is

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Report from RIDM 2014

by Maurie Alioff
February 22, 2015
RIDM

Highlights from the 2014 Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) include Citizenfour, National Gallery, Le nez, and Stray Dog.

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