documentary

Life Without A Heartbeat

September 25, 2012

Flatline from Union HZ on Vimeo. Flatline plays like a glimpse into a weird steampunk future where we replace our beating hearts with mechanical turbines;  softly whirring where they used to beat. (Somebody fetch my tattered bowler and pointless goggles, I’m ready for the steampunk slam poetry jam.) The net effect: Life With No Heartbeat [...]

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Leggo My Truck-o

September 1, 2012

(Quick sidenote: Is it bad form to post something you fear may be plucked off its free online posting? Should I know new media etiquette already?) Anyway, Hands On A Hardbody is a super compelling documentary; basically, it’s about a bunch of crazy folks competing in a hot Texas parking lot to keep their hands [...]

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Just Be Cause

June 18, 2012

More power to mate Joel Richardson for being the only dude in this doc to not hide behind a Banksy-esque ski or skull mask. And, I truly have nothing but respect and love for Joel’s cause – enough to check my pockets for a few sheckles – but, it seems I’m constantly getting inundated with [...]

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The Imposter

June 6, 2012

The Best Film Of The Year. #whatdocscando

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Everything Is A Remix, The Final Chapter

February 16, 2012

Everything is a Remix Part 4 from Kirby Ferguson is one of those serialized online educations that’s earned the affable and sorta adorable amateur documentarian a look-in on all his future doings. It’s like some artist or musician turning out a good song or – more pertinently – a good cover of a track (for [...]

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The Greatest Game Ever Obsessed Over

February 13, 2012

So this guy, NFLrankingDOTnet (possibly not his actual name) makes out like he’s got the NBA’s own zapruder film in this homespun documentary about an NBA playoff game where he contends that ‘the fix was in’ and ‘the league was in on it’ – it all makes for a no access, all-in, balls-out exposé that’s worth its [...]

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“This Is So Beautiful, It Hurts My Feelings”

February 8, 2012

I had a sketch of Wayne White’s scotch taped to a kitchen wall and I think I left it – tape and all – for the next tenant in that apartment. It was beautiful and, while I’m embarrassed I treated it poorly, I’m strangely happy I left it for someone else to find and fall [...]

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Tabloid Press

November 6, 2011

“Everytime I make a movie I should at least attempt to try to re-invent the form.” Errol Morris is talking directly into the ‘interr-o-tron’ device he invented and used to conduct the interviews for his documentary “Tabloid“. It’s awesome to hear that kind of ambition but never mind any of that noise, watch this film [...]

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Lovable U

October 27, 2011

Sure, I want to urge anyone in earshot to watch Alan Zweig’s documentary on record collectors Vinyl but, it’s the lessons in love and life in the less seen Lovable that are most worthy of making noise about. The Toronto filmmaker calls Lovable the final film in a autobiographical/confessional trilogy (the other being ‘I, Curmudgeon’). Zweig again [...]

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Broke n’ Human Beings

August 18, 2011

I don’t delight in the dignity limbo contest that makes up most reality shows. Don’t watch Hoarders or Intervention or America’s Best Dance Crew to be buoyed by other people bottoming out. But, though I can’t offer you a working link for a full watch(.. not principals, just can’t find it. Comment thread anyone?), you [...]

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