I’m not counting anymore how many films I watch during festivals, especially because I like them both, long and short films. Now, when ZagrebDox is behind me, I can start with my fresh documentary coverage for this season…
This week I’m going to be mostly concentrated on watching great documentary films at the festival ZagrebDox… Thus, this post is strongly connected with its programme… Camilla Nielsson will present within the programme her latest film ‘Cities on Speed – Mumbai Disconnected‘… and as an intro to moviecholic atmosphere here is her award winning documentary from 2007 ‘The Children of Darfur’…
Photo above: Excerpt from the film The Children of Darfur
Photo bellow: Georgina Cranston (c) taken from UNICEF
Documentary series The Human Animal by ethnologist and zoologist Desmond Morris have always been magnet for wider audience. Made during the 1990’s his series (same as his books) about human body and the cultural differences are great resources which from time to time I like to watch again.
Photo above by Steve Pyke (c), photo bellow taken from robertodelrey.com
All White in Barking, documentary made in the BBC production (2008) by Marc Isaacs deals with petty-bourgeois racism and xenophobia in small UK town of Barking. Isaacs’ film is humorous and serious at the same time, portraying all absurdities a typical neighborhood (not only in UK) can have against other cultures…
As you can see history has been pretty brutal in Renaissance too, compared to the dark Middle Ages. Let’s see where all these guys in tight pants, armor costumes with charming periwigs ended up…
Illustration: Johannes Georg Paschen, 1659, thehaca.com
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