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RIDM Screening 30: The Square
This was my first screening so far of the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal and I can safely say that it was fantastic way to start. First, a word on the festival: Since 1998, the...
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RIDM Screening 69: Ayiti Toma
Focusing on foreign aid (before and after the earthquake), the slave trade and colonialism, and vodou in Haiti, this documentary provides a far-reaching scope of a complex society. If there is one flaw...
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RIDM Screening 84: A jamais, pour toujours
Confession: I am basically posting this for good form, because it is a documentary that I saw, and thus feel obligated to include it in the series. (Plus, duh, I like bragging about all these awesome...
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RIDM Screening 122: Atalaku
Directed by Dieudo Hammadi, Atalaku is set during the latest elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1422763033/ Here’s a quick timeline: 1960: Patrice Lumumba...
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Review: The Surrender
The Surrender, Scott Esposito, Anomolous Press 2016 It is nearly too perfect that the French word genre denotes both literary genre and gender. For if Scott Esposito’s quietly powerful essays found in...
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Fiction Unbound: On Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost
I’m on a bit of a Rebecca Solnit tear right now. I recently gave my reading notes for The Faraway Nearby, and I’m currently reading Wanderlust: A History of Walking. In between, I picked up A Field...
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