Month: January 2021
No Data Plan
No Data Plan is a film depicting a train journey taken across America by the director, an undocumented resident. He and his family came from the Philippines as a kid, and he has spent his life living in America, but is still seen as an illegal immigrant. The permanent sense of the fragility upon which…
Vicious Fun trailer
Infinity Minus Infinity
Infinity Minus Infinity is an experimental art film on the theme of British racism. I’ll be honest this exactly the kind of thing I’d be invited to by a pal in art school and afterwards stand around with my hands in my pockets, going, “Mmm . . . Yeah.”
To See You Again
That was a hard watch. I cried throughout. To See You Again is a documentary about women searching for their missing loved ones in Mexico. In Morales, the families of the missing band together and win the right to have government mass graves opened, and to exhume the bodies for identification. Not trusting the authorities,…
Riders of Justice trailer
Strike or Die
Strike or Die is an odd wee documentary. It’s very loose in its formation, and the story it tells is much more a watercolour of the sense of its subject, than a linear, stark polemic. It juxtaposes memories and footage of the miners strike in the French industrial town of Merlebach in the early 90s…