This week’s Friday Film Pick is a documentary about the power citizen’s media has to diversify representation, tell under-represented stories, and contribute to community. With Glowing Hearts looks at the flurry of alternative media activity that took place in the lead-up to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. With corporate media
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Art Threat: Two films show effects of uranium mining – Friday Film Pick: Don’t Mine Me & Uranium
Continuing with our new initiative of highlighting at least one Indiegogo project each month, one of this week’s Friday Film Pick is Don’t Mine Me – a doc looking at the history of uranium mining on a Navajo Indian Reservation in the US. Since you can only watch the trailer
Continue readingArt Threat: Let’s keep this planet & change Hollywood – Friday Film Pick: Earthkeepers
Suffering through the late night throes of programming for Cinema Politica I stumbled upon what seemed to be a promising documentary called Greenlit, a film about sustainability and the film industry, made by LA insiders. It had a light-hearted start that seemed to me conspicuously set up to suck in
Continue readingArt Threat: The Noise of Cairo explores art in revolution
The Noise of Cairo is an upcoming documentary about the Cairo art scene after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Produced by scenesfrom, this “cinematic kaleidoscope” interviews a dozen artists and explores the role played by creatives during the revolution. Via African Digital Art.
Continue readingArt Threat: Not a cool time to be Canadian – Friday Film Pick: Everything’s Cool
On Monday the Canadian government officially announced the very unpopular decision to withdraw from Kyoto, furthering Canada’s status as eco-pariah on the international stage while reinforcing the massive chasm that exists between Canada’s citizens and its Conservative government. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives won a majority in last year’s election despite the
Continue readingArt Threat: Help fund new doc about a rebel poet – Friday Film Pick: Alice Walker – Beauty in Truth
This week’s Friday Film Pick kicks off a new initiative at Art Threat where we will select at least one IndieGoGo project per month to highlight important fundraising efforts. IndieGoGo is an independent fundraising platform for all kinds of projects, including political films and political art initiatives. Since political art
Continue readingThings Are Good: One Millionth Tower
One Millionth Tower is a new interactive documentary on the hyper-local level focusing on Kipling Ave. in Toronto. It’s a logical follow up to Out my Window (we’ve looked at it before) and explores how participatory urban design can change our highrise urban landscape. The highrise re-imagined. One Millionth Tower
Continue readingArt Threat: Oscar short list for best doc comes up short – List of fifteen films is missing some solid contenders
The 2012 Academy short lists were announced recently and the list for Best Documentary—a collection of apolitical, liberal, biographical, historical and some punchy fare—is missing its usual heavy lifters and heavy hitters. Once again the prolific Werner Herzog has been shunned by the Academy despite winning awards and accolades for
Continue readingArt Threat: Two docs explore violence & resistance – Tales from the G20 & End:Civ compliment but still incomplete
Having been there during the G20, images of Toronto becoming a war zone—burning cop cars foregrounded by throngs of protestors clashing with riot gear-clad police—are burned into my mind. It was a dark time for the city, and it raised serious questions: when is it truly necessary to take a
Continue readingArt Threat: New Nordic Documentary Cinema – Identity and belonging made visible
To describe the topic of Nordic documentary cinema as unexplored would be an understatement.
Continue readingArt Threat: Remember Burma? – Friday Film Pick: Happy World
A short while back, Bryan Farrell, who also writes for WagingNonviolence, told Slate readers about a short web doc called “Happy World.” A peak inside the bizarre dictatorship currently gripping Burma, the doc blends satire and observation to reveal the absurdity of the ongoing regime. The film lacks real analysis, but is a solid compendium […]
Continue readingArt Threat: Ambiguous portrait of the well known Wiebo Ludwig – Friday Film Pick: Wiebo’s War
When we left the theatre after seeing Wiebo’s War at VIFF (The Vancouver International Film Festival) the main thing on our lips was “that man is incredibly well spoken,” followed by “that is a seriously difficult situation”. Wiebo Ludwig is a stranger to few who live in BC and Alberta. The articulate bearded man was […]
Continue readingThings Are Good: Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist
Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd have had a lot of success in stopping whalers from murdering defenceless whales and other sea life. Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist looks at the success of Sea Shepherd as well as the drama.
“There have been many films made about Sea Shepherd but none as hilarious and revealing as CONFESSIONS OF […]
Art Threat: Haunted animals – New doc project explores animal suffering
Liz Marshall, the director of Water on the Table, is working with photographer Jo-Anne McArthur on a new cross-platform documentary about the price animals pay as subjugated, commodified and oppressed beings in the human-controlled global industrial capitalist system. The blurb: THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE is a cinematic point-of-view documentary and an immersive educational online […]
Continue readingArt Threat: 28 films on 9/11 and its impact on our world
Over the past decade, filmmakers across the globe have tackled issues that have come about as a direct consequence of 9/11 and the United States’ response to the attacks.
Continue readingArt Threat: Blue Gaza – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Strip
An award-winning 2002 documentary on Gaza from filmmaker James Longley is now available on line.
Continue readingArt Threat: Jesus freaks, jew-haters & Guinea pig savers – Friday Film Pick: David Modell – A Passion for Faith, Death and Freedom
Christian born agains, radical animal rights activists and neo nazis – sound like the USA? Nope, it’s the land of lovely cups o’ tea, Great Britain.
Continue readingArt Threat: The fight to sell or save water – Friday Film Pick: Water on the Table
New DVD release of Water on the Table, a doc beautifully showcasing the public-vs-private fight over water.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Bobby Kennedy Jr. Talks "The Last Mountain" With Director Bill Haney
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The companies involved in mountaintop removal mining (MTR) are beginning to get much-needed exposure in the national media. For years, this issue has been rele…
Continue readingThe Skwib: The Vowels: A Ken Burns Film
The Vowels: A Film by Ken Burns from Sam Cherington on Vimeo.
Genius parody, via Brain Picker.
Alltop makes love to Ashokan Farewell.