CARVING THE DIVINE: BUDDHIST SCULPTORS OF JAPAN: REVIEW The documentary genre is as varied a genre as they come. Some documentaries are poetic, some are politically activist in their...
Director Aneil Karia’s Surge is a character study of a man unravelling. Joseph (Ben Whishaw) lives an atomized existence. He works as a security screener at the airport. Everyday he pats down trav...
Life offers us an abundance of paradoxes. Director Mark Cousins reads a Twitter post in his documentary The Story of Looking that presents us with such a paradox: Why is it that we tend to close our...
The short documentary The Doll, by director Elahe Esmaili, allows us a peek into the phenomenon of teenage marriages in Iran. The Doll proves once again that when it comes to Iran, complexities ...
Whenever a phenomenon becomes common in society, there is sure to be a subgenre of film that develops alongside it. School mass shootings have been explored in such works as Gus Van Sant’s Elephant o...