VIRTUAL VOICE – Suzannah Mirghani (Qatar, 2021) 6′

Suzi doll is an ego-warrior. The director’s online avatar, marching to the algorithms of social media. She is lit by temporary outrage. A trending indignation. A passion that is fashion. A politics of the popular. Her activism is abstract. Her help is hypothetical. We know many girls like Suzi, and many times we are her: Read more about VIRTUAL VOICE – Suzannah Mirghani (Qatar, 2021) 6′[…]

RARE EARTH – Robert McDougall (Australia, 2021) 31′

A huge percentage of the world’s rare earth minerals, essential for the manufacture of many modern hi-tech products which define contemporary technological life, come from the fields of Inner Mongolia, China, where loose environmental protection restrictions permit the violent extractive processes required to obtain the minerals. In 1954, in the small and remote town of Read more about RARE EARTH – Robert McDougall (Australia, 2021) 31′[…]

IN THE AIR TONIGHT – Andrew Norman Wilson (United States, 2020) 11′

There’s an urban legend about Phil Collins’ inspiration for his 1980 hit In the Air Tonight, which Andrew Norman Wilson first heard as a teenager while getting high in a friend’s basement. According to the ritual of the legend, the song is played while a narrator tells the story, syncing the infamous analog drum break Read more about IN THE AIR TONIGHT – Andrew Norman Wilson (United States, 2020)<a> </a>11′[…]