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CAMERAPERSON — Kirsten Johnson Interview

October 8, 2016 By Leave a Comment

CAMERAPERSON — Kirsten Johnson Interview

Kirsten Johnson has spent 25 filming other people’s documentaries. With CAMERAPERSON, she uses the outtakes of those films, as well as new footage of her family, to make a film that is much more than the sum of its parts. When I spoke with the ebullient and thoughtful filmmaker on September 30, 2016, we talked… Read More »

Tagged With: Amanda Laws, blueberries, Bosnia, Derrida, Eric Milano, externalized psyche, Fruitvale Station, Guantanamo, James Byrd, Judy Karp, Laura Poitras, Nels Bangerter, organized rape, Oscar Grant, Pete Horner, racism, Sarajevo Film Festival, Shoah Foundation, Skywalker Ranch, sound design, trauma cut, Trevor Paglen, Wellington Bowler, Yemen

NO MAN’S LAND

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

NO MAN’S LAND

NO MAN’S LAND, Danis Tanovic’s black comedy about the absurd futility of war, is a prime example of why I adore films from the former Yugoslavia and have since before it was a former. They are like a knife to the gut, they are beautiful, and they are poetic with their shattering intensity. They are… Read More »

Tagged With: accordion, Bosnia, Chchen, Oscar, satire, savage whimsy, the former Yugoslavia, UN Peacekeepers

Larysa Kondracki Reveals THE WHISTLEBLOWER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Larysa Kondracki Reveals THE WHISTLEBLOWER

For her first film, Laryisa Kondracki went with her gut and chose a topic that she felt passionately about. THE WHISTLEBLOWER is based on the true story of Kathryn Bolkovac, a police officer taking a lucrative contract to be a peacekeeper in Bosnia who discovered unsettling corruption and refused to be scared into silence. The… Read More »

Tagged With: Benedict Cumberbatch, Bosnia, corruption, David Strathairn, debut film, director co-writer, Eilis Kerwin, Kathryn Bolkovac, Larysa Kondracki, Rachel Weisz, Serbia, sex trafficking, UN Peacekeepers, Yugoslava

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