North America's largest documentary film festival, Hot Docs, opens today in Toronto and screens nearly 200 films through May 8 — and blogTO is already all over it, having run a mammoth preview in three parts (1, 2, 3), each divided into three sections: Top Picks, Recommended and Not So Recommended. I'll follow a sampling from those Top Picks with some recent reviews and overviews coming out the recently wrapped Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
Empire North, winner of the 2010 Danish:dox Award at Cph:dox: "Danish artist Jakob Boeskov pulled off quite a stunt in 2001. After 9/11, he built a sniper gun designed to shoot Gps sensors into demonstrators; the pricks of the sensors penetrating the skin feeling like a mild mosquito bite. The gun was a fake, but the flocks of technology developers and international arms dealers were not. Hilarious and terrifying, it's like a performance-art James Bond film, only with real stakes. Raises provocative questions left and right,...
Empire North, winner of the 2010 Danish:dox Award at Cph:dox: "Danish artist Jakob Boeskov pulled off quite a stunt in 2001. After 9/11, he built a sniper gun designed to shoot Gps sensors into demonstrators; the pricks of the sensors penetrating the skin feeling like a mild mosquito bite. The gun was a fake, but the flocks of technology developers and international arms dealers were not. Hilarious and terrifying, it's like a performance-art James Bond film, only with real stakes. Raises provocative questions left and right,...
- 4/28/2011
- MUBI
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