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Category: Documentary

Documentary

  • Điện Biên Phủ – Nhìn từ nước Pháp

  • Rising Sun Blues

    An actress asks a sex worker to help her create a film in which they share secrets of their professions, and they become both filmmakers and characters.

  • In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire

    A behind-the-scenes documentary of the 1994 film, Interview with the Vampire.

  • The Somme 1916: From Both Sides of the Wire

    With access to both German and British archives, military historian Peter Barton re-examines one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War from both sides of No Man’s Land.

  • Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale

    Herman Melville’s epic ocean adventure “Moby Dick” is an American masterpiece. But was this stirring tale of violence and revenge simply an allegory, or were there real giants of the deep deliberately attacking whaling ships? With the help of centuries old witness accounts and modern day science, we explain how the legend of the great white whale came to be. Then we determine if the multiple sperm whale assaults on ships in the 19th century were indeed premeditated and coordinated.

  • Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima

    In a timely precursor, this 40 minute talk sees Alexander Kluge and Joseph Vogl return to their customary roles. Kluge feigns the curious lay reader. He defers to the professional diviner of high and popular culture, Vogl. Together they make a sort of Dante and Vergil team, undaunted by the hellish difficulties in their pursuit of meaning and complexity. And these are the questions they ask themselves: Moby Dick – Ahab. Who are they? Godzilla. How does it compare to MB? What is monstrous, what is monstrosity?

  • Moby Dick: An American Allegory

    A look at US society through the prism of Moby Dick, the mythical novel published by Herman Melville (1819-1891) in 1851.

  • Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick

    Dive into the dark waves of the Atlantic to make contact with the Giants of the Sea.

  • The Final Insult

    This video work intermingles fiction with actuality in a poignant confrontation with homelessness.

  • The Case Of The Vanishing Gods

    A cultural history of ventriloquism disguised as a sci-fi TV series, integrating live actors with vintage and artist-made puppets. The Case of the Vanishing Gods is a fiction-doc hybrid that traces the phenomenon of ‘throwing voices’ from the oracles of ancient Greece to the spectacle of the modern horror film, and pushes the essay film into exciting new territory.