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 beautiful film about the Danish member of the resistance during World War II, Kim Malthe-Bruun. The film is remarkable in that it portrays a lover, more than a fighter. In Denmark Kim is relatively well-known as his letters have been studied in school since the war. His letters and diary entries are full or wisdom, love and poetry and in the context of the war, it becomes quite powerful.

The director was present at the screening and made some very interesting remarks about narrator voice. He instructed his actor be completely devoid of emotion, “as if he were reading a newspaper”.

Official site
Directed by: Morten Meldgaard

But Naomi is an intelligent (and gorgeous, which helps) woman who masters the art of discourse and this film gave me even more motivation to read her books. However, I can’t help feel that she was in the doc for name-value. For the first hour she played a minimal role.

The central idea of the film, as I understood it, is that shocking events lowers the public’s guard and allows new (economic) policies to be applied.
Ok, my 1 minute is up. If liked the directors or any anit-Bush dox, you’ll probably like this one. If not, you’ll at least appreciate the editing and the research which went into creating it.

Here’s a short film Naomi Klein made. I presume it’s what inspired the directors to make “The Shock Doctrine”.

IMDB: 7 of 10 (65 votes) / more info / 90 minutes
Directed by: Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom

Vashti Bunyan is a singer/song-writer with an interesting story. As a young woman she made a beautiful album and was then forgotten for 30 years. Freak-folk artists like Devendra Banhart and Vetiver brought her back from oblivion  a few years ago and Bunyan is now making music again. She is very delicate, soft-spoken and gentle and while this makes her a compelling person it unfortunately doesn’t make her a compelling character. The narrative centers around a horse-and-carriage trip Bunyan and two friends made while she was composing the songs of the first album. We re-visit the places while understanding how the album came about.

It’s an ok structure for a documentary, but something goes missing along the way. For me, anyway.

IMDB: 7.7 (6 votes) / Official site / 87 minutes
Directed by: Kieran Evans

I like Bob Marley and so does the director of this film. The film is a portrait of the album “Exodus” and of the year it was made, 1977. Unfortunately it’s also a weak film – it’s exceptionally difficult to understand Bob’s dialect and with no sub-titles most of the audience lost the central points when I watched it at CPH:DOX 2008. The narrative is centered around a completely unremarkable event; the unveiling of a plaque on some street in London where Bob did something.

Part of the mission of Lovedox is to spread the love for documentary films and I’d love to say something good about this film, but it’s just not very good.

IMDB: 7.6 (10 votes) / 90 minutes
Directed by: Anthony Wall