Documentary
6 chains · 10 films
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The Show Must Go On
8 films
defiant · glittering · tender · rebellious
From Freddie Mercury's operatic excess to the raw defiance of punk, this chain traces how cinema captures the transformative power of self-expression.
The Camera as Weapon
8 films
unsettling · darkly satirical · media-savvy · prophetic
From Chris Hansen's sting operations to the blood sport of nightly news, this chain traces the moral rot at the heart of spectacle.
The Long Way Home, and Who Pays For It
8 films
tender · unflinching · nocturnal · defiant
A chain about sex work, disability and survival that keeps its camera on the worker's face rather than the client's wallet. It begins with a lift shared between strangers and ends somewhere far less comfortable.
When Slapstick Becomes Endurance Art
8 films
bruising · deadpan · transgressive · tender
A chain that starts with grown men stapling themselves to each other and ends somewhere near Buster Keaton, via a Belgian postman and a man who actually ate his own shoe.
Who Is Really Performing Here?
8 films
deadpan · unsettling · playful · complicit
Ali G returns to a world of cameras and marks, and this chain follows the put-on from Staines to Tehran, asking who is really being conned when we laugh.
The Camera in the Mosh Pit
8 films
ferocious · scrappy · testimonial · raw
A documentary journey through punk and hardcore, from Los Angeles clubs to Washington basements, tracing how filmmakers caught the noise before it disappeared.
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