Best Documentary Films

Documentary Category

Flicker Works in Development

Last week’s DN guest Matthias Hoegg clued me into Callum Cooper’s Flicker Works in Development as the subject of A six month portrait of an

Documentary, Music Video

Everything Is Outta Sight

The weekends can be just as hard as the week, so here’s some beautiful music shot by Derrick Belcham and Vincent Moon of The Luyas playing from within a

Documentary, Music Video

Eran Hilleli: 1981

If I was forced at gunpoint to list my favourite animators featured on DN throughout the past 5 years, there’s little doubt that Eran Hilleli would make

Documentary

Uppercut

I’d almost forgotten about the stunning documentary series California is a place that we featured back in June 2010 on Directors Notes, Uppercut the

Documentary

The Iron Triangle

Located in the shadow of CitiField, the junkyard community of Willets Point, aka The Iron Triangle, stands its ground against eminent domain and planned

Documentary

A Magazine Is Born

If you’ve never read Little White Lies, watch this short and I’ll guarantee you’ll want to! It’s a must for film fans with a love of

Documentary, Podcasts

DN192 – Strange Powers – Kerthy Fix

With their feature documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields directors Gail O’Hara and Kerthy Fix paint a porttrait of musician

Documentary, Music Video

An Island Private-Public Screening

Teaser number 3 for the Efterklang / Vincent Moon An Island collaboration is here, along with news that the afore mentioned screening dates won’t

Documentary, News

Solace

Last year we were introduced to the work of Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull, collective known as the Institute For Eyes, through their feature documentary

Documentary, Podcasts

DN189: The Dungeon Masters – Keven McAlester

Director Keven McAlester joins us for the final show of the year to discuss his feature documentary The Dungeon Masters, a look at three individuals who devote

Documentary

Filmography 2010

@genrocks has lovingly put together a transfixing ode to 2010’s cinema releases: “This year’s movies have legitimately transformed my idea of

Documentary

Be Linen

You wouldn’t have thought a documentary about textiles could be so beautiful and so inspiring, but Be Linen (commissioned by the CELC – the

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