documentary

DAYBREAK: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKERS DON ARGOTT AND DEMIAN FENTON

By K.J. Doughton | April 2012

Via telephone transmission from Pennsylvania to Tacoma, this flourishing filmmaking team explains that despite the miles worn by both their subject and his band, “Last Days Here” prefers to embrace the future and not wallow in the past…

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DAYBREAK: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKERS DON ARGOTT AND DEMIAN FENTON

Like a handful of Quaaludes ingested at a funeral, “Last Days Here” starts out as a dismal downer. But wait! Is that a faint ray of sunshine on the...

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ICONOCLAST

If you know of Boyd Rice, you know why this film is bound to raise hackles. Rice is a controversial person to say the least. Artist. Writer. Musician. ...

HEALING THE FATHER WOUND: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER JUSTIN HUNT

Hungry mice are enticed by cheese. Similarly, headbangers are lured by heavy metal. I’m an unashamed, life-long Metal Geek. As such, the following...

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HELL AND BACK AGAIN

SGT Nathan Harris is 25 years old, but he’s already seen too much. After commanding his squad through the chaos of battle-torn Afghanistan, the injured...

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PARTIAL FRACTION

"Partial Fraction," an absorbing documentary by Cheb Kammerer and Sharon Horodi, is a portrait of the Shapira neighborhood in Tel Aviv, where the...

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VIDEOMAPPINGS: AIDA, PALESTINE (DVD)

In "Videomappings: Aida, Palestine," German born artist Till Roeskens has created a fascinating document: part community art project, part documentary....

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RETREAT

"Retreat" is an experimental portrait of Amy Miller, an American woman who is a Buddhist nun in the Mahayana tradition. Miller runs the Milarepa Center in...

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CROOKED BEAUTY

"Crooked Beauty" is an experimental portrait of Jacks Ashley McNamara, an artist and advocate for the mentally ill. Ms. McNamara is an astonishingly...

Digital Celluloid Features

DIGITAL CELLULOID – ISSUE 62: THE BLAIR PISS PROJECT

Digital Celluloid, a comic strip by artist Chris Cirillo, pokes fun at the films of today, tomorrow and yesterday. Whether it is a classic or an upcoming...

“THE KINGDOM OF SURVIVAL”: AN INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER M.A. LITTLER

When I interviewed writer/director M.A. Littler (The Road to Nod) for Z Magazine many months ago, his documentary was not yet ready for my viewing. ...

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