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Our adventures in Amsterdam documented in this video as well as an interview with Slavko Martinov director of the documenatry Propaganda which you can also read about in this review.
Video: Christian Jensen, Text: Mark A. Silberstein, Edit: Jenya Vyaltseva
 
 

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[ 31 Dec 2012 | No Comment ]

 
Voina, a Russian artivist collective specalising in provocative street art against state control, has released a documentary which recently screened at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA).
The film, Tomorrow, chronicles the history of the group from their early beginnings as shoplifting squatters to their biggest and most controversial piece, painting of a gigantic penis on a drawbridge in front of the headquarters of the Federal Security Service in St Petersburg.
While the group has more than sixty members since its creation in 2006 the movie focuses on the core of …

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[ 25 Dec 2012 | No Comment ]

 
Propaganda is a documentary purported to have been made in North Korea with images of decadent western lifestyle, capitalist culture and a message of salvation. A couple claiming to be North Korean dissidents approached a translator in Seoul handing her a DVD on condition that she translate and disseminate it.
All the hundreds of images in the documentary are  from TV and archive footage and  revolve around a North Korean scientist, whose identity has been concealed, who explains under different headings what is wrong with the western world.
From reality TV shows to …