Documentales en Sundance
Desde el viernes está teniendo lugar la nueva edición del Festival de Sundance, que siempre dedica una parte importante de su programación al documental. Os pasamos un resumen (en inglés) de la selección que ha realizado Erik Moe:
Chicago 10
Using stylized animation, "music of revolution then and now," and archival footage, Brett Morgen's Chicago 10 tells the story of the 1968 Democratic Convention protests.
Everything's Cool
Daniel Gold and Judith Helfand's documentary takes on global warming and the culture of disinformation in the U.S.
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Rory Kennedy traces the stories of atrocities committed by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Featuring candid interviews with victims, witnesses, and some of the perpetrators.
Manufactured Landscapes
Photographer Edward Burtynsky finds unusual beauty in the vast industrial landscapes of Asia. Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and cinematographer Peter Mettler follow his lens and dig into the stories that created such landscapes as strip mines, recycling dumps, and China's Three Gorges Dam.
The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun
About a man who dreams of turning his dilapidated castle into a Russian orthodox monastery.
My Child Could Paint That
Four-year-old Maria Olmstead has sold more than $300,000 worth of paintings. Does her work really have any more artistic value than other children's drawings? Directed by Amir Bar-Lev.
Protagonist
Directed by short subject Oscar-winner Jessica Yu, who's 2004 film In the Realms of the Unreal used animation to bring to life the imagination of visionary artist Henry Darger.
VHS–Kahloucha
The story of Moncef Kahloucha, an amateur Tunisian filmmaker who has shot such masterpieces as I Had No Money and Now I'm Loaded and Misery to Get Rid of the Booze on an old VHS camcorder. His love for film overcomes his community's poverty and his low budget equipment.
White Light/Black Rain
Steven Okazaki, another short subject Oscar-winner, weaves together the memories of Japanese survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs with those of Americans involved in the attack.
