Film/Documentary tip top 5
Every issue we publish a tip top 5 of documentaries and films that we think are worth watching.This issues list has been created by Jan Pieter ’t Hart and Luna Hupperetz from Kriterion. If available we share the content on our Youtube channel.
Geographies of Freedom
Director: Miguel Peres dos Santos
Release: 2019
Topic: Neo-colonialism, artistic practice
Watch: nowhere yet
This film reconstructs and emphasizes the neocolonial relationship that the Netherlands maintained with Shell on Curaçao. In creating their own cuts and *beeps* in the original archival footage, the filmmakers manage to make their statement on the so-praised attitude of “Dutch Freedom”.
New Gods
Director: Loïc Hobi
Release: 2020
Topic: Internet culture, incel culture
Watch: Nowhere yet - let’s hope for online or local screenings soon
A short film consisting of heavily edited clips from the Youtube channel of LonerWolf58; a self-proclaimed ‘involuntary celibate’ who, sitting in his car, rants about his unsuccessful attempts with women. A small look in the internet-fuelled mind of an angry young man.
Oeconomia
Director: Carmen Losmann
Release: 2020
Topic: Capitalist system, banking
Watch: nowhere yet - but we’re aiming to screen this film in Kriterion on the 21st of February.
In this highly sterile and structured audiovisual presentation, Losmann triggers the frustration of economists and bankers by questioning the workings of the financial system they created: Where do profits come from?” and “How is money created?”
Pyrale (Moth)
Director: Roxanne Gaucherand
Release: 2020
Topic: Coming of age, young romance
Watch: On Vimeo On Demand: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/pyrale
Beautifully filmed docu-fiction from IDFA’s latest edition, which uses the real backdrop of a small village in the south of France, which every summer gets invaded by a swarm of moths. There, love blooms between two teenage friends.
The Mouth of the Wolf
Director: Pietro Marcello
Release: 2009
Topic: Small lives in Genoa
Watch: Not on any (legal) playform, unfortunately. But search and you will find...
A melancholic documentary that watches as a fiction drama, on the romance between a machismo ex-convict who has spent most of his days behind bars, and his lover, a trans woman who waits for him to return home.