Documantery

Leviathan (I) (2012)

April 30, 2015 Respond

In the very waters where Melville’s Pequod gave chase to Moby Dick, leviathan captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen cameras – tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker – it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors. (c) Official Site
The Secret Glory of Otto Rahn [Richard Stanley 2001]

April 18, 2015 Respond

This is an immersive biographic documentary about Otto Rahn – SS Obersturmführer, medievalist, Ariosophist, charged by Himmler to find the Holy Grail. Otto Rahn ended being discharged as homosexual and being asked to commit suicide as a honourable death in 1939. I never had the nerve to explore and sift trough the occult tentacles of the…
Al doilea joc (2014)

January 22, 2015 Respond

,,A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceaușescu. The conditions are…
Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)

December 7, 2014 Respond

Being a Frank Herbert’s Dune fan I always thought that a sci-fi masterpiece like this, so complex and rich, deserves a glorious visual adaptation. If someone was cut for the job, then the person couldn’t be anyone else but Jodorowsky. “Jodorowsky’s Dune” is a documentary by Frank Pavich. It tells the story about Jodorowsky’s unsuccessful…
TPB – AFK

February 10, 2013 Respond

This is a documentary about the largest and the most famous torrent website in the world – The Pirate Bay – and the story behind it. It’s the day before the trial starts. Fredrik packs a computer into a rusty old Volvo. Along with his Pirate Bay co-founders, he faces $13 million in damage claims to Hollywood…
Side By Side (2013)

February 2, 2013 Respond

Side by Side is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Christopher Kenneally.[1][3][4][5] It was produced by Justin Szlasa and Keanu Reeves.[1][3][4][5] It premiered at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival and it was shown at theTribeca Film Festival.[1][3] The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. It shows what artists and filmmakers have…
CHICUSURI – a Romanian documentary by Corneliu Cîrdeiu

December 10, 2012 1

https://vimeo.com/31722320 CHICUSURI watch on Vimeo This is a short documentary after an original idea by Liviu Petrescul, directed by Corneliu Cîrdeiu. It is under CC licence on Vimeo and got to me via Bogdan Otaku via Dermot. Sincerely I cherish the moments when I get to blog about some local stuff, not that we have…
BBC documentary about JG Ballard – Shanghai Jim (1991)

December 3, 2012 Respond

JG Ballard Shanghai Jim Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessel are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — J.G. Ballard, Ambit magazine, 1967 Here is a small documentary made by BBC about the life of science fiction author JG Ballard (Crash, Atrocity Exhibition, Vermillion Sands, High Rise…