taboo
Sixty years ago, The Children’s Hour dared to make audiences uncomfortable and present the consequences of bigotry.
Rotoscoping hasn’t really been used in this way before. True, this feature from German-Iranian animator…
Caniba is a disturbing film about human loneliness that feels rare in documentary’s contemporary canon.
Tighter constraints on content mean minor or extreme events examples of life imitating art would not occur, however censorship’s archaic and controlling past revokes one of the most important human rights: freedom of speech. Will this fight ever end?
Rarely is a filmmaker as entrenched in infamy as John Waters. Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1946, the king of counterculture became known in the 1970s for his creative collaborations with the equally infamous Divine and his gang of Dreamlanders. He began work as a director with a series of experimental short films including Hag In A Black Leather Jacket (1964) and the Andy Warhol-inspired Roman Candles (1966).
