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IN THE BASEMENT OF APOLLO HALL short film, Experimental Festival film review
IN THE BASEMENT OF APOLLO HALL, 16min., Sweden
Directed by Hans Appelqvist
A furry TV host, an opera diva, and a music expert come together to answer the simple yet impossible question about the origin of music.
http://sifantin.net/
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WEST WIND short film, DANCE Festival film review
WEST WIND, 9min., New Zealand
Directed by Kelly Nash
The movement is influenced by Butoh, a practice that among many things can be viewed as a turn away from the Western styles of dance, ballet and modern, to create an aesthetic that embraces an earthbound physique and natural movements.
http:...
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EVA. HERO GIRL short film, DOC Festival film review
EVA. HERO GIRL, 30min., Kazakhstan
Directed by Temirbek Amanzhol
"Eva. Hero Girl" is an inspiring documentary film about Eva Zhigalina, who became a trailblazer in the world of Kokpar in Kazakhstan—a traditional male game of nomadic peoples.
https://evaherogirl.kz/
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EPICYCLE short film, Experimental Festival film review (interview)
EPICYCLE, 7min., Canada
Directed by Deb Ethier
A surreal experimental animated allegory of the cyclical rise, fall and evolution of social order.
https://rustybolttheatre.zyrosite.com/
https://www.facebook.com/rustybolttheatre/Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this fil...
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STRANGER short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review (interview)
STRANGER, 5min., USA
Directed by Julia Hayden Fung
This film shows the experience of lost relationships through the eyes of a young girl. "Stranger" is a story of love, longing, and the regret through passing of time.
https://www.instagram.com/jhf.ilms/Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What mot...
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MEMORY DREAM MAN short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review
MEMORY DREAM MAN, 2min., USA
Directed by David H. Fein
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THE COLORS OF BUSHWICK'S STREETS short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review
THE COLORS OF BUSHWICK'S STREETS, 4min., USA
Directed by Jesus Zaldivar
Murals and graffiti became a certain feature of urban landscapes everywhere. New York City is one of them. -
MAJDRESCHER short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review
MAJDRESCHER, 3min., France
Directed by Antoine Gandubert
This film crew was initially filming a TV add for a Tractor... but the shoot went wrong. -
EL CAPITAN PACO film, Music Film Festival video review (interview)
EL CAPITAN PACO, 25min., Mexico
Directed by Rodrigo Oliva
Paco is a public transportation driver who deals with his stressful job every day, until the imagination of Sarah, his daughter, turns him into the captain of a spaceship and gives him another perspective on his problems.
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SIGUR ROS film, Music Film Festival video review
SIGUR ROS, 6min., USA
Directed by EKATERINA GIMRO
Short-form documentary of people's emotions listening to the new Sigur Ros album, which will be released in June 2023. 50 people share their first reaction with the camera and tell us about how Sigur Ros has impacted their lives. -
MAKING USA ENAMEL short film, DOC Festival film review (interview)
MAKING USA ENAMEL, 17min,. USA
Directed by Regan Vasquez
The documentary “Making USA Enamel” takes viewers on a three-year journey to bring colorful enameling to US soil—in the middle of a global pandemic, too. Meet the people of Lodge Cast Iron who helped create USA Enamel™ in this documentary b... -
YOU JUST CAN'T SEE THEM FROM THE ROAD short film, DOC Festival film review
YOU JUST CAN'T SEE THEM FROM THE ROAD, 49min., USA
Directed by Keely Brazil Covello, Michaela Brazil Gillies
An immigrant family in California’s Central Valley faces the loss of their land and way of life. One of the few remaining ranchers in the Bay Area watches urban sprawl creep in from every... -
IMPOSSIBLE TOWN feature film, DOC Festival film review
IMPOSSIBLE TOWN, 90min., USA
Directed by Scott Faris, Meg Griffiths
When her father dies unexpectedly, Dr. Ayne Amjad is thrust to the helm of a decades-long struggle to aid a southern West Virginia town beset by cancer-causing chemicals. Haunted by her late father’s mandate to “help others” at a... -
GREAT OCEAN LOVE short film, DOC Festival film review (interview)
GREAT OCEAN LOVE, 30min., Australia
Directed by Ella Bourne
Great Ocean Love is part documentary, part road-trippin’ surf flick that follows Belinda Baggs, Linley Hurrell, and Lilly Pollard on a journey of discovery along the Great Ocean Road. Centred around the teachings of Gunditjmara whale dre... -
YOURS short film, DANCE Festival film review
YOURS, 9min., UK
Directed by Flaminia Graziadei
The body of a dying old woman lies in a bed in stillness, while her soul is dancing on the magic stage she dreamt to be all her life. The blinding lights and the clapping of an imaginary audience, accompany her to the final curtain call. In this poe... -
NOMADIC MYTHOLOGIES short film, DANCE Festival film review
NOMADIC MYTHOLOGIES, 20min., USA
Directed by Laura Perdrizet
“we are the dream the city is having about itself.” ~ “the city is the dream we are having of where we belong” Nomadic Mythologies is a genre bending tale of a woman and the imagination of the city. As she maps each site with her body, ... -
CONNECTION film, Music Film Festival video review
CONNECTION, 3min., USA
Directed by Konstantin Mazov
Listen
To the Woods
Trees
Two- and four-legged beasts of earth and sky and
I am made aware
In context of discrepancy and disconnect connected
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FEAR CITY short film, DOC Festival film review
FEAR CITY, 20min., USA
Directed by Nathaniel Pinheiro
As New York protests the death of George Floyd by day, Jose LaSalle spends his nights with his video camera on a mission to make police afraid of being watched. -
BIRDIE short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review
BIRDIE, 1min,. Ireland
Directed by Declan Davis
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BEFORE THE OIL short film, DOC Festival film review (interview)
BEFORE THE OIL, 11min., Netherlands
Directed by Roel Swierenga
Deep in the mountains in southern Norway Odd Kvinen runs a husky farm. Teaching about the energy transition from before the oil was found until the present day, about respect for nature and choices we have to make.
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DOC Feature Film Festival - ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL. Nov. 27/28 event
ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, 94min., Australia
Directed by Chris Eipper, Declan Mortimer Eipper
In Ireland, If you re hungry enough, you ll dig up the tar on the road with your teeth to get a vote. It s not only the other parties who are a threat to you; it s your running mate. Indeed, it is the inte... -
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FLOWERS short film, LGBTQ+ Toronto Festvai film review (interview)
FLOWERS, 20min., USA
Directed by Nicholas Hansell
Over a weekend in spring, a high school boy reconnects with an old friend and begins to discover what it really means to be in love.
https://www.instagram.com/flowerstheshortfilm/Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this ...
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6-THE PEOPLE CALLED MONGOLS_review