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A Leicester shoe factory’s annual day out, which this year is to London, is documented in this gently humorous and historically compelling if mildly patronising short documentary, which takes us around the sights of The Big Smoke. Iain.Stott
Showing posts with label Short Documentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Short Documentary. Show all posts
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Saturday, 12 December 2009
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James Mason wanders through the streets and alleyways of London, introducing us to some of its lesser known and decidedly unglamorous areas, peopled by street vendors, buskers, and down-and-outs, in this intriguing, imaginative, and oft irreverent documentary, which mixes scenes of bizarre humour with some much more sobering material. Iain.Stott
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
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Taking a brief look at Pitcairn Island, which became the home of the British mutineers from the Bounty and their Tahitian wives at the end of the 18th century, this short documentary – full of comments about primitive lives, brown people, half-castes, and cross breeding – is really rather depressingly condescending and casually racist. Iain.Stott
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
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Racist, patriotic, and imperialistic to the man, the subjects of Broomfield’s second film – in which citizens from across the class spectrum are asked for their views about being British and Britain in general – manage to hang themselves, without the need of any commentary, by their own arrogant, complacent views. Iain.Stott
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Eye-openingly depressing, Broomfield’s account of the 1972/73 Kirby rent strike – during which 3000 residents of the new town refused to pay their rent (after it was doubled) in protest at the substandard housing, schooling, and policing, and the lack of promised local jobs – actually manages, despite all of the suffering, to be strangely optimistic in its depiction of an unbreakable human spirit. Iain.Stott
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Broomfield’s first film – made with great technical restrictions (which probably helped rather than hindered the film’s visual style, particularly when seen in light of his subsequent work) – melancholically captures the human tragedy of the forced moves of a number of inner-city Liverpool communities to the ill-conceived new town of Kirby. Iain.Stott
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
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Members of the public, on the street, are asked for their opinions about Polish youth; these interviews are shown three times, with varying degrees of editing and dubbing, producing very different results, in Lozinski’s disconcerting short documentary about propaganda film-making. Iain.Stott
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