Are you for real
Today in focus are the Documentary and the curated Are you for real? program.Both programs show films that capture aspects of reality in a non-fictional matter, and next to the traditional documentary, expect films that document and arrange reality in a different, less typical manner.
The nice folks from Don’t you have docs? curated the program Are you for real?, which is a selection of their favourite films from their screenings over at dontyouhavedocs.com.
Artists
- Evan Mather - Scenic Highway
- Paula Jimenez - Death Choreography
- Urizen Freaza - Fictional Recall
- Mayye Zayed & Mohamad El Hadidi - Black Out
- Micah Hahn - Ralph and The Cat
- Peter Snelling - Living Statistic
- Vincent Moon - Sharon van Etten
- Colin Solal Cardo - Josh T. Pearson
- Vincent Moon - Kozuki Tomokawa
- James Arneman - Diesel in the Blood
- Sean Dunne - Stray Dawg
- Emily Bissland - In The Same Boat
Scenic Highway (18:00, 2010) - Evan Mather
Due to the recent unpleasantness, Baton Rouge has eclipsed New Orleans as the largest city in Louisiana. Is the city destined for greatness? Scenic Highway is the name of US Highway 61 as it passes through northern Baton Rouge. It is also this trip t..
Death Choreography (1:31, 2011) - Paula Jimenez
A subtle and spontaneous choreography around death recorded by chance in Haarlem (Holland).
Fictional Recall (1:00, 2008) - Urizen Freaza
FICTIONAL RECALL is a collaborative project based on resurrecting forgotten memories. I purchased a plastic bag full of Super 8 reels for 10€ at the flea market. When screening them at home i discovered that what i had in my hands was nothing but so..
Black Out (3:00, 2010) - Mayye Zayed and Mohamad El Hadidi
The video is about a demonstration that took place on the 16th of June 2010 near Khaled Saeeds house in Cleopatra district in Alexandria protesting against his murder. On June 7, 2010, Khaled Saeed, a 28-year-old Egyptian who was allegedly tortured t..
Ralph and The Cat (3:00, 2011) - Micah Hahn
Ralph recalls an experience with a cat that he had when he was a child in the US’s Great Depression.
Living Statistic (11:00, 2008) - Peter Snelling
Alex Kacheppa had acted in a film I had made a year before the police raided his house and I knew nothing about the situation his family were in. When the news spread of his attempted deportation myself and a small group of his friends began making ..
Sharon van Etten (18:41, 2010) - Vincent Moon
Vincent Moon’s days are burning. They disappear quicker than anyone else’s. He gambles his time, rather than spending it or wasting it. It’s hard to keep track of what country he’s in from one day to the next, though you know ..
Josh T. Pearson (22:00, 2011) - Colin Solal Cardo
La Blogotheque presents Josh T. Pearson | Sweetheart I Ain Your Christ | Thou Art Loose | A Take Away Show "Il avait une barbe gigantesque, les airs dun vieux sage. Quand il chantait, il bougeait à peine, les lèvres, les doigts. Sa tristesse était ..
Kozuki Tomokawa (27:37, 2010) - Vincent Moon
His name is Kazuki Tomokawa… Many years have passed, for me, since I fell under this spell of his but the years definitely have not passed for him; for everyday he grows older he seems shines brighter. Strangely enough my love, also, has lost no vigo..
Diesel in the Blood (5:00, 2011) - James Arneman
If The Highways of the Australian outback are its arteries then truck drivers are the lifeblood. Diesel In The Blood explores the transient existence of truckies on Australia’s roads, where days fade into each other and solitude is a way of lif..
Stray Dawg (15:31, 2011) - Sean Dunne
Meet Jonny Corndawg, the underground country-music legend. A born-and-bred Virginian, Jonny has played on five continents in as many years, and every state in the lower 48. Now Jonny has given himself over, heart and heel, to the world of Running. L..
In The Same Boat (6:21, 2009) - Emily Bissland
In a climate of global fear, two unlikely men prove that normal people can do what governments cannot: to overcome fear and racial prejudice with understanding and friendship. This film documents the story of an Australian Vietnam War Veteran with PT..