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“What makes Humboldt USA so effective is the way Svatek parallels these three stories with the themes of colonialism and technology.” Playing in this year’s Visions du Réel festival’s International Feature Competition is Humboldt USA, the latest documentary from G. Anthony Svatek, and his first feature-length film. His previous longest work, .TV, ran only twenty-two […]

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“In Dentro, the act of inquiry ultimately proves more significant than the pursuit of definitive answers” “Numberless are the world’s wonders, but noneMore wonderful than man; the storm-grey seaYields to his prows, the huge crests bear him high;Earth, holy and inexhaustible, is gravenWith shining furrows where his plows have goneYear after year, the timeless labor […]

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“The film’s experiment gradually begins to crumble under its own weight.” “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,And thought of […]

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“A harsh reminder that when war becomes a daily routine, no night is ever going to be truly quiet again.” The odd thing about war is that life simply goes on, even under fire. Cinema has taught us that war is a mix of heroism and suffering, but in reality most of the time it […]

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“There is an intriguing film at the core of Dear Ancestor, but it only fully emerges in the moments that rely on archival footage and abandon the fairytale framework” In many ways, Dear Ancestor is a hybrid film that draws on both fairytale and documentary narrative structures. As it attempts to highlight the systematic plundering […]

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