A Pretty Illusion
The movie “Girl Model” belongs to the DOK Programme “Bodycheck”: Young russian girls on the model market in Japan. What looks like a dream, turns out to be an illusion.
Category: video
One Master of the Simpsons
Who did actually invent the Simpsons? We met up with one of the “Masters” of the popular family – David Silverman.
Playing games with John Smith
Why does John Smith like to play with the expectations of the audience? And what happens if someone is playing with his expectations? We tried it out!
“Neuland” at DOK Leipzig
“DOK Neuland” is a new way to tell documentary stories – interactive and multimedia-based. Will there be more bubbles than screens in ten years? Just one of our question for the curator Britta Senn.
The festival director and her fat, little pony
It’s almost a year since the new festival director Leena Pasanen has moved to Leipzig. Before the DOK really started, we had the opportunity to meet her and to ask her a few exclusive questions – about the festival, but also about her as a person.
DOK 2015 – Here We Come!
Tomorrow DOK Leipzig starts and we are more than ready – 1 week full of films from all over the world, interviews with interesting filmmakers and background stories of the festival. But before the festival starts, we wanted to be filmmakers ourselves.
Impressions of the DOK Festival 2014
7 long days, many many movies and heaps of impressions – our week at DOK Leipzig in one minute.
“You say goodbye and I say hello”
After 10 years and 11 festivals director Claas Danielsen is leaving DOK Leipzig. His successor is the Finn Leena Pasanen. Will there be mulled wine on the 58. DOK Leipzig? And how does a women change the festival atmosphere?
FEMMEfille – Beauty as we Know It?
What is beauty? Maybe you would answer that question with one of the big names of the model business. But the story of the model Isabelle Caro is the best example, that the pursuit of beauty can have fatal consequences.
Reality – Which Reality?
Reality, what is reality? Isn’t it the way, we see the world? The way we feel, the thing everything is based on? “Reality always wears a mask” says Jon Bang Carlsen.
CITIZENFOUR
Edward Snowden and the surveillance system: gigantic intelligence service headquarters and a claustrophobically small hiding place. Spectacular and disturbing – a triptych of Paranoia.
Art War – Revolutionary Art
Art is a weapon! The protagonist Ganzeer in Marco Wilm’s documentary “Art War” shows, that it is possible to use graffiti for political messages. He uses his art to present his own inner revolution.