Jesse Moss’ fly-on-the-wall documentary may have initially begun as a human interest piece about a small Lutheran church in Williston, North Dakota, where migrant workers find shelter and support during their search for work in the booming natural gas industry, but the checkered pasts of a few overnighters…
Looping around Rome is Grande Raccordo Anulare, a circular highway that crosses over waterways, snakes through historic and not-so historic neighbourhoods, and over which scrape airplanes from its international airport, but nestled in every pocket, street corner, strip bar…
Although its title suggests a cinematic document of human misery seething in the poorest, filthiest, most overcrowded tracts of human civilization, Canadian director Jean-Nicolas Orhon attempts to clarify the very definition of slums, and using interwoven interviews with Robert Neuwirth and Jeremy Seabrook…
One of Asia’s most vital staple foods is followed from planting to harvesting in director / cinematographer Uruphong Raksasad’s visual tone poem. A hefty chunk of the film’s tight running time is devoted to harvest festivals, with events spanning bull races, expansive dances, singing, religious offerings, and an insane set of fireworks…
Canadian composer Jeff Toyne discusses his latest scores for Leah Walker’s The Privileged and some tidbits on the upcoming Season 2 of DirectTV’s Rogue.
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