{"id":8769,"date":"2014-05-07T16:55:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2014-05-08T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T16:09:07","slug":"hot-docs-2014-reviews-set-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8769","title":{"rendered":"HOT DOCS 2014: Reviews Set 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The fifth and final set of reviews from Hot Docs 2014 features a quartet of documentaries from the NFB, each somewhat sharing aspects of emotional & psychological trauma, tough childhoods, and learning to eschew indifference during the final years of high school.<\/p>\n

As her mother’s mental health continues to deteriorate due to the effects of Alzheimer’s, director Carole Lagani\u00e8re examines the effects of living without a parent or sibling, and the four ongoing stories in Absences<\/a><\/strong> (2014) are very moving: coping with the death of a father, the disappearance of a sister, the estrangement of a mother, and the slow mental decline of a mother.<\/p>\n

Some viewers may recognize bits of themselves in the handful of teens filmed by director Jean-Francois Caissy in Guidelines \/ La marche \u00e0 suivre<\/a><\/strong> (2014), and identify with the ennui of school, the after school boredom, and slowly processing the reality of being caught after doing something quite dumb. Favourite moment: a kid who slowly admits to a knowing teacher he did indeed do something wrong to a classmate. Been there, done that \u2013 which is why it\u2019s amusing to see it from the other side, watching the limited brain power of a youth realize the jig is up before throwing up both arms and acquiescing to whatever needs to be done so he can get back to his friends.<\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s had some recent high profile tragedies in which someone suffering from mental illness were confronted by the police, and the outcome was tragic. The incidents polarize families and communities against police, and the media hovers around to heighten and exploit outrage while advocates for the mentally ill hope each event will result in significant changes in the way the police handle someone clearly ill with a potential for violence, but not directly engaged in it. John Kastner\u2019s Out of Mind, Out of Sight<\/a><\/strong> (2014) humanizes the image of a troubled stranger by letting patients undergoing behavioural therapy explain and reflect on the circumstances and current states. It\u2019s the sobering and tempered information which should\u2019ve been covered by the media, but can\u2019t due to the destructive time limits on news segments in prime time coverage. One of the best docs of the festival.<\/p>\n

Lastly, we have Claude Demers\u2019 Where I\u2019m From \/ D\u2019o\u00f9 je viens<\/a> <\/strong>(2014), an unusual self-reflective piece on childhood in which the director\u2019s impressionistic narration supports a collage of striking images and vignettes with present day kids in his hometown of Verdun, Montreal.<\/p>\n

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Coming soon:<\/em> Twilight Time\u2019s new Blu-ray editions of David Lynch\u2019s polarizing\u00a0Wild at Heart\u00a0<\/strong>(1990) and Steve Barnett’s Mindwarp<\/strong> \/ Brain Slasher<\/strong> (1992),\u00a0some final thoughts on Hot Docs 2014, and the first set of Toronto Jewish Film Festival reviews.
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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
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Hot Docs 2014 Reviews, Set 5, include four NFB docs: Absences (2014), Guidelines \/ La marche \u00e0 suivre (2014), Out of Mind, Out of Sight (2014) and Where I\u2019m From \/ D’o\u00f9 je viens (2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2759,2562,2563,2756,461,2711,2757,2592,2751,2752,2760],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HotDocs2014_Adv_Rev_Set_5_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2hr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8778,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}