At Berkeley, Frederick Wiseman, EE.UU., 2013 How do institutions think? The anthropologist Mary Douglas would have loved the magnificent four-hour film At Berkeley, the 38th made by a genius, Frederick Wiseman: what we see here is the collective thought of an institution and al- though the University of California at Berkeley is undoubtedly a peculiar microcosm, […]
Tag "observational documentary"
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SHORT REVIEWS (16) / MES FICUNAM 2014 (19): THE EVIDENT AND SECRET LIFE OF INSTITUTIONS
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SHORT REVIEWS(11): ESCUELA NORMAL / NORMAL SCHOOL
Escuela normal / Normal School, Celina Murga, Argentina, 2013 By Roger Koza This superb documentary features Argentina’s first Escuela Normal (Normal School) as scenery, a paradigmatic institution for the civilizing and liberal endeavor led by controversial president Domingo F. Sarmiento at the end of the 19th century. The School, past and present, constitutes an […]
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SHORT REVIEWS (07): CALLE LÓPEZ / LÓPEZ STREET
Calle López / López Street, Lisa Tillinger and Gerardo Barroso, México 2013 Por Roger Koza In the eyes of a foreigner practically any street of Mexico City’s Centro Histórico holds potential for a film. Life on the street deserves more than just the natural condition of observer anyone could have, it demands an extra attention. In […]
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SHORT REVIEWS (05): SAN ZIMEI / THREE SISTERS / TRES HERMANAS
San Zimei / Three Sisters, Wang Bing, China, 2012 By Roger Koza Wang Bing’s work is of capital importance. The most relevant documentary-filmmaker of the Sixth Genera tion, he’s been working in some sort of counter-history of the 20th and the early 21st centuries. His films insinuate and show a state of affairs and a genealogy. […]
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