The premise of “The Age of Stupid” is the following: Sometime in 2055 a custodian (played by Pete Postlethwaite) of a vast human culture library looks back on what went wrong: Why did we humans let Global Warming happen? Through 6 separate stories we get an international view on the effects of Global Warming and [...]
Colin Beavan decided to live one year without having any negative impact on the environment. What does that mean? It means only buying local, not using anything disposable (including diapers, plastic containers and toilet paper!), not taking the elevator, only using public transportation, not using electricity and not producing any waste. All in a small [...]
Just like “The End of Suburbia”, “Collapse” deals with global oil depletion. What happens when we run out of the black gold? (hint: it won’t be pretty!) Director Chris Smith does so many things right with Collapse. It’s expertly structured and manages to swing the direction back and forth between “this guy is out of [...]
A lovely short-doc about a guy with a passion: soda pop. John Nese runs a shop with over 500 kinds of pop and he’s exactly the guy you’d want to serve you when you can’t decide which of the 15 Cherry Cola brands is right for you. Lovely! Watch the film here: Youtube: 5 out [...]
Fantastic short doc aimed at showing the breadth and depth of Getty’s Hulton Archive. The challenge for this director has been “how can you show photographs that don’t exist?” Watch the short below and witness the amazing solution to this challenge. Youtube: 5 stars (137 reviews) / 7 minutes Directed by: Laurie Hill
A violently honest shortdoc featuring home video footage taken by the director’s late father, a man who had a few things to hide. Although the editing is very rough and has a distinct “home made” feel to it, the effect of the film is nonetheless haunting. IMDB (awaiting 5 votes) / Official site Directed by: [...]
Short doc winner of CPH:DOX 2009. “Three Pilots” is a beautiful doc about flying and the people who enjoy it. Visually the film is quite poetic, but it didn’t really get to me. 7 mins. Directed by: Philip Leaman
Can be seen January 6th in Denmark! More info on DOX:BIO. “Into Eternity” is like no other documentary you have ever seen. It’s a film that questions how we see the world and offers a peak into the far, far future. If “2001″ were a documentary, this would be it. When I saw the trailer [...]
I spotted this short doc over at The Documentary Blog. Simply put, it’s about baseball card collecting, something I don’t know the faintest thing about. It’s not a good introduction to somebody like me, but at least the format is original. Filmmaker Nozkowski has presented everything as first person P.O.V. Didn’t really work for me, [...]
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