Category: documentary review
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Sudan, remember us
Documentary is a powerful storytelling form, notable in ‘Sudan, remember us’ which relinquishes documentary’s colonial roots, rejecting the observational gaze and becoming an active member of the people brigade.
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Chão Landless
The film is a beautiful representation of grassroots organisation which does not militarise the movement or exaggerate its message of resistance. A contemplative approach with designed pauses between scenes, it resists the ideological gaze that fashions political messages for consumption. Creating such relational space for viewers relieves the film from the pressure to adhere to…
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My memory is full of ghosts
A haunting collection of war’s inherent trauma and the ongoing emotional displacement people experience in its aftermath. Shot in 2023 the documentary trundles through an empty city, we are brought to Homs the city known as the city of laughs, yet life is drained from these public spaces and sadness fills the silences. Homs was…