Astro Noise: Unsettling Encounters, or The Finer Points of Whistle Blowing Pamela Cohn December 2014 Feature Articles Technical issues and social justice are tied together when we talk about mass surveillance. Cryptography – that is, mathematics and computer science – has a liberating possibility for us. At the core, I don’t t...
Everything is Under Control: Ai Weiwei’s Film Curation at the 11th CPH:DOX Pamela Cohn December 2013 Festival Reports The case is against the company Fake. …When I came out , I asked: “What is the economic problem?” They said: “This has nothing to do with you, it’s about Fake Company.” But the day before I was released they as...
Minding the Gap Between Fiction and Reality: CPH:DOX Celebrates 10 Years Pamela Cohn November 2012 Festival Reports In one of the many engaging panel discussions on the “documentary arts”, as one filmmaker called them, at the 10th edition of Copenhagen’s international documentary festival, lead programmer Mads Mikkelsen host...
I’ll Be Your Mirror: Nan Goldin’s Film Curation at CPH:DOX Pamela Cohn December 2011 Festival Reports A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That’s not what it’s about for me. It’s really about relationships and feelings. . . . It’s not ab...
Call It What You Like: Harmony Korine’s Film Curation at CPH:DOX Pamela Cohn March 2011 Festival Reports Well they got some damn songs, now, hell, a man can't even figure out what in the hell's going on, don't you know. But the old songs, usually they was made in telling a damn story. A lot of the old English, old...
