Dziga Vertov’s “The Man with the Movie Camera” One of the foundational texts in the symphony-of-a-city genre, Dziga Vertov’s classic Soviet tone-poem THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA is perhaps the greatest experiment in pure velocity in the history of the medium. Unlike Eisenstein’s more dialectical (and therefore more digestible) works, this silent jewel has… Read more »
The Ms. Films Festival of Durham, North Carolina, brings highlights from its 2005 festival on a tour of the Northwest. This independent, grassroots, all-volunteer run film festival promotes the work of women in film by giving audiences the chance to see programs curated by festival director and film curator Niku Arbabi, featuring films not… Read more »
The story of HornAfrik, the first community TV and radio station in Somalia. A decade after the disastrous US humanitarian intervention in Somalia, HornAfrik, the first independent TV and radio station in war-ravaged Mogadishu, was established by three brave Somali-Canadians in the face of chaos and devastation. Their vision was to forge a path to… Read more »
The documentary Fallujah 2004, chronicles the death and destruction within Fallujah caused by U.S. Forces in April 2003 and April 2004. Director Toshikuni DOI exposes the side of the war in Iraq that we do not see or hear in mainstream media. Through eyewitness accounts, DOI provides a media outlet for Iraqis to express their… Read more »