Guest post by Alexandra Coțofană, Director, ILFF. In 2017, the InLight Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (ILFF) is honored to partner with the IU Cinema, one of its most trusted partners every year. ILFF aims to promote and support the intersections of human rights and documentary film and to facilitate dialogue between those who make documentaries… Read more »
There’s a scene right at the beginning of Ornette: Made in America that features a group of actors dressed up in old west clothing, doing a reenactment or performance of some sort for the onlooking crowd of Fort Worth, Texas natives. Guns are drawn quickly, and bodies hit the dusty streets like 10 pound bags… Read more »
I love cats! I especially love cats in movies, and I’m super excited to see the documentary Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2016) at the IU Cinema this week. Kedi focuses on the free-roaming cats of Istanbul and how their lives intersect with human co-habitants (but not owners!). In anticipation of Kedi, I made a little video with some… Read more »
“They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it.” — James Baldwin Documentaries are the vegetables of the movie world. You may not always want to consume one, but for the sake of your health you really should. They… Read more »
Guest contributor Noni Ford reflects on the complexities of grief and the staying power of One More Time with Feeling. The greatest element of art is its capacity to transform pain into an experience that can be shared and understood in some measure by all people. While Nick Cave was in the midst of making his sixteenth… Read more »