Also known as “Brainman”. Daniel Tammet is a young man with “high-functioning autistic savant syndrome”. In other words, he’s smart as hell. We follow him to the States where scientists get baffled at his extraordinary mental abilities. For example, he has a stop-over in Iceland where he learns the language in a week, he does [...]
The recent films we have been reviewing; “Collapse”, “The World According to Monstanto” and “Death of Suburbia” all deal with the end of the infinite growth paradigm. And while films such as “Food Inc.” shows some light at the end of the tunnel for food production, the Dutch film “Food = Waste” flips on a [...]
Also known as: “Le monde selon Monsanto” and “Controlling our food”. Monsanto, in case anybody was in doubt, is pretty far from winning the love of the people. Former producers of Agent Orange, they now produce pesticides and Genetically Modified seeds and growth hormones. They have a horrible record and seem to leave misery and [...]
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
I was browsing through Youtube’s documentary movie list and started watching “We Are Wizards” which I had never heard about before. It’s a cute and honest film about the fan culture surrounding the Harry Potter universe. “Wizard rock” is one part of that culture, rock music with Potter-themed lyrics. Perhaps not the most innovative music, [...]
7 long years. That’s how much time Andrew Wiles spent fighting a mathematical problem to which no one knew if there existed a solution. The film is a beautiful, little gem about human endurance represented by a very modest man. Who knew mathematics could be this exciting? The doc is not available on DVD anywhere, [...]
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
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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