IDSFFK: BRAINWASHED SEX-CAMERA-POWER AND 31 OTHER INTERNATIONAL NONFICTION DOCUMENTARIES TO THRIVE ON THE FESTIVE SCREENS

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24 August 2022 09:05 PM

Brainwashed Sex-Camera-Power, Sky Hopinka’s Kicking the Clouds, Shanti Thakur’s Terrible Children and

Abby Epstein’s The Business of Birth Control are among the 32 international documentaries screened for

the IDSFFK in the non-fiction category.

A wave of tributes to the art of documentation and the bygone filmmakers of the underrated legacies

from lesser-known lands also enrich the screens. Malian director Fatou Cissé’s A Daughter's Tribute to

Her Father, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Ennio: El Maestro, and Inés Toharia’s Film, The Living Record Of Our

Memory engage in the storytelling of the lives of filmmakers and the quest to preserve the art of

filmmaking. While Inside The Uffizi explores the tensions between the needs for conservation and

renewal of Renaissance art, Dirndlschuld and Rampart recollect the traces of the spatial and temporal

past and that which was lost in the oblivion of time.

Nina Menke’s insightful documentary Brainwashed Sex-Camera-Power, has toured across 13 countries

and festive venues including the Sundance(USA), Berlinale (Germany) Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival of

Greece. An outright portrayal of the politics of gender and language in films, and a representation of

Nina Menke’s years-long lecture series, “Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Oppression” through

the gynocriticism of 175 cinematic shots are a few of the takeaways from this remarkable documentary.

Nina Menke’s narrative in this docu criticizes and deconstructs the idea of the male gaze and

objectification of women in a manner that engages the conscience of spectators.

A unique interrelation between children and the environment is also engrossingly depicted in Namibian

director Huebschle’s The forests of deserted land and Iranian director Maral Alizadeh’s Sympathy

Syndrome.

Remembered things and The Kaiser of Atlantis also stand apart in experimenting with retrieving the past

annals and documenting the present discourse on how we remember the cultural and political incidents

that took place hundreds of years ago.