‘The Delivery Line’ Gently Returns to You
Nance Ackerman’s The Delivery Line follows five midwives working where birth is surrounded by danger, poverty, displacement, and neglect. The brightness is small, but it is there.
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Chile Under Pinochet: A Film Chronology of Dictatorship and Memory
From the 1973 coup to its afterlives in national memory, these films trace violence, silence, resistance, and the ways Chile continues to confront Pinochet’s violent legacy.
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Johan Nayar’s Malawian Musical Odyssey with ‘The Banjo Boys’
From The Banjo Boys beginnings as a “mini-doc” to its fruition as a feature film, Johan and Neil Nayar join musicians Yobu Maligwa and Yosefe Kalekeni on their journey from simple craft to sensational art.
‘The Sandbox’ Only Touches the Surface of Surveillance
Without digging too deeply into the subject, as it warrants, The Sandbox contends that border zones are experimental grounds for hi-tech surveillance of vulnerable people.
‘My Word Against Mine’ Turns Fracture into Procedure
Psychoanalysis documentary One Word Against Mine relies on that unstable border between what seems to come from outside and what has already taken shape within.
‘Mailin’ Is a Dark Fairy Tale of Survival
María Silvia Esteve’s Mailin drifts toward a dreamscape of surviving trauma and injustice.
‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon’ Shows a Primal Method for Survival
In one of A Fox Under a Pink Moon’s sharpest insights, imagination is one of the few available means of surviving a crisis.
‘Sun Ra: Do the Impossible’ Achieves the Seemingly Impossible
In its gorgeous embroidery of color, sound, and thoughtful reflection, Sun Ra documentary Do the Impossible achieves the seemingly impossible.
Silent Film Restoration Is an Act of Love
To experience restored silent films – even just salvaged bits of them – is to be dazzled and intrigued by a window into the past and to be lit by a desire to see more.
It’s Funny How Complicated Coexistence Can Be
Activist-cum-stand-up comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi documentary Coexistence, My Ass! makes it painfully clear how complicatedly funny/not-funny coexistence can be.
‘Route One/USA’ Drives Along History and Memory
In Robert Kramer’s documentary Route One/USA a fictional character rides shotgun in this road trip history and memory.
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‘Israel Palestine on Swedish TV’ Is an Urgent History/Not History Lesson
Despite its flaws, Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 is a meticulously detailed study of conflict and hauntingly foreshadows the current moment.