Monthly Archives: August 2007

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Manufacturing Dissent: Michael Moore and the Media

Posted: 21 August 2007 by Chris Hocking

Documentary filmmakers Debbie Melnyck and Rick Caine set out to make a relatively simple and straightforward documentary about their hero Michael Moore, but as they start filming and putting together the film, they soon discover that the Mr Moore isn’t…



Soft Words

Posted: 21 August 2007 by Chris Hocking

Soft Words is a very political film about how John Howard and the government misuse the English language for political gain. Mixing interviews with archive footage, as well as text overlay quotes; this is a very powerful short film that…



MIFF 2007 Documentary Shorts Programme 2

Posted: 21 August 2007 by Chris Hocking

I Want to Be a Pilot, is a depressing and eye-opening film about a 12-year-old boy who lives in the slums of East Africa, and only has one dream in life – to become a pilot, so that he can…



Forever Never Anywhere

Posted: 21 August 2007 by Chris Hocking

This film has a very strange beginning in retrospect. It opens with a comedy performer getting lost in the backstage maze of corridors, as he tries to find the stage door. I have absolutely no idea what relevance this has…



The Signal

Posted: 21 August 2007 by Chris Hocking

This is a very low budget independent film – but in the best possible way. Full of blood and guts – this is a film, split into three parts by three different filmmakers, about a mysterious signal that gets sent…



Red Road

Posted: 21 August 2007 by Chris Hocking

Red Road is a dark thriller about Jackie, a surveillance camera officer, who watches over the dangerous streets of Glasgow on a matrix of television screens. One day, she recognises a man whose past collides traumatically with her own. She…



Everything’s Gone Green

Posted: 21 August 2007 by Chris Hocking

I actually stumbled into this film by accident, as the many days of movie watching finally took a toll on my brain and logical thinking. However, it was a great mistake to make as Everything’s Gone Green is a really…



Men at Work

Posted: 21 August 2007 by Chris Hocking

Nothing really beats a film about some good old fashion rock rolling. As four men drive home after a failed skiing trip, they make a quick toilet stop along the way. This is where they discover the rock – a…



Shahram and Abbas

Posted: 21 August 2007 by Chris Hocking

This witty yet tragic longish short film is about two Iranian refugees – a journalist in his 40s and an adventurous yet lonely man in his late 20s – who pretend to be a gay couple in order to obtain…



Day Watch

Posted: 21 August 2007 by Chris Hocking

I’ve never seen the first instalment of this Russian trilogy before, so maybe I’ve missed a lot of the back story to the Matrix-like film, Day Watch. Essentially, it’s a film about an age old battle between good vs. evil…