There are two ways of looking at Danic Champoux’s innovative documentary Self(less) Portrait. On the one hand it is a unique, insightful window into the human soul and all its most secret thoughts and darkest of dreams. On the other hand it is an exploitative and voyeuristic acco... Read More »
As a society, we have a tenuous relationship with mental illness. With all of our complexities, it has been a fixture and spot of confusion in the lives of humans for as long as we have existed. There is a fear associated with these sicknesses, a fear of the unknown, a fear of th... Read More »
Non-fiction work such as documentaries, are investigatory and revelatory forces in cinema. The subject of focus is given various treatments or views via interviews, footage, and various settings of the subjects past and present. Sometimes the subject is hero or an moral cause. Read More »
Absences from acclaimed French-Canadian filmmaker Carole Laganiere is a melancholy tale chronicling four unconnected individuals as they each reach a crucial point in their lives, and who have each been affected by an absent parent or sibling. Nathalie is searching for a sister w... Read More »
Though using elements of cinéma vérité, Divide in Concord is primarily a performative-mode documentary which follows the actions and reactions of those involved, particularly Jean Hill who instigated the events. What Jean actively involves herself in? Passing a bill which bans th... Read More »
As a fan, I am always wary of documentaries or books dealing with professional wrestling. I don’t want to know about what happens behind the scenes, or how things are set up. I’d rather keep my views of past hero battles as glorious as when I first saw them on the small screen. Y... Read More »
At a time when American politicians are sat around fiercely thinking about the crisis in Ukraine, another group of Americans has beaten them to it by dedicating their lives to Ukraine in another way – Mail order brides… Read More »
Two decades ago, professional documentary filmmaker Doug Block began to film weddings as a way of making money on the side. Gaining access to, and providing a record of, the most important day in a couple’s life felt like a noble way of making a living and brought happiness to ev... Read More »
