Articles tagged "documentary"

Filmmaker Sebastian Junger On the Fearless Photojournalist.

How a cat became the buzz of the Tribeca Film Festival.

Talking with director Eva Orner about Afghanistan's television revolution.

The film is a rallying cry for a freer internet, but it shies away from the obvious question: is piracy more than glorified stealing?

If you're in the market for getting pregnant, it turns out there are few better times for medical tourism than after your dictator of thirty years is removed through a violent uprising.

“I used to be a nobody,” says a voice. “Until I discovered the internet.”

I got the chance to see all this first hand last summer while shooting Motherboard’s upcoming documentary, Drone On. It was eye-opening. I got to fly some of these things.

A few years ago I was poking around for something to watch at a video rental store – remember those? – and I happened across The Trials of Henry Kissinger (watch here). This was my introduction to director Eugene Jarecki, a titan in the world of mode…

In _Hard Eight_, Paul Thomas Anderson's first feature, John C. Reilly becomes the gambling protege of Phillip Baker Hall. Like some of Bret Easton Ellis' returning characters, Anderson scripted Phillip Baker Hall, in _Boogie Nights_ and _Magnolia_, t…

Have you ever found yourself watching the "Qatsi trilogy":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatsi_trilogy but wishing it had a narrative structure? No? Well, to be honest I can't say that I have either. But I will admit that sometimes I wish I could get s…

Like most big engineering feats in modern history, the Internet began as a military and university affair in the United States (ARPANET). The World Wide Web would follow about two decades later, when it emerged as a side project out of a European gov…

Steven Colbert's brilliant "attack on the fallout of Citizen's United":http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/02/stephen_colbert_is_winning_the_war_against_the_supreme_court_and_citizens_united_.single.html by way of an ou…

Thirty-eight years ago today, James Yancey, better known as super producer J Dilla, was born. 5 years and 362 days ago, he died of apparent cardiac arrest, just three days after the release of _Donuts_ on his 32nd birthday. Dilla made his name as an

Richard Garriott launched his career by creating giant, wild virtual role-playing games, and his whole life has looked like one ever since. In 2008, he followed in the footsteps of his father, the astronaut Owen Garriott, by joining the Russian Space…

It'd be tough to argue that Richard Garriott hasn't lived out the dreams of every über-geek everywhere. He first made his millions in the video game world, most notably for developing the _Ultima_ series (and there's that whole bit about him coining…

h4. Werner Herzog on his new documentary, how to have a conversation on camera, and the limits of documentary film Werner Herzog only has half an hour. He’s busy with many projects, including a "new art installation":http://motherboard.vice.com/20…

Ask anyone who's spent time in Brazil about Brazilian music, and they're liable to chew your ear off about a few things: drinking cachaça in tiny nightclubs while a twelve-piece samba band tries to outpace the staccato explosion of dancing women's he…

The Amazon Rainforest covers 2.1 million square miles in South America, spanning territory owned by nine different countries. It's what people think of when they talk about the 'world's lungs,' and it hosts an incredibly important concentration of th…

The Free Art & Technology (F.A.T.) Lab is an international group of 21 artists, hackers, thinkers, designers, developers, and entrepreneurs. The organization employs art, activism, pop culture, and a wealth of knowledge about how the internet works t…

bq. A BOOK THAT COULD HAVE CHANGED THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. IT CONTAINS THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS OF A GENIUS WHO WAS CENTURIES AHEAD OF HIS TIME. HIS NAME WAS ARCHEMEDES {sp}. THE BOOK WAS LOST TO THE WORLD FOR MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND YEARS. PASSING T…

h5. _Revisiting our 2009 documentary on the 104-year-old OG of modern architecture._ In the 1950s, Brazil decided it would be a perfectly reasonable idea to move the capital to the center of the country's interior plateau (read: nowhere). To facil…