“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are,” goes author Anaïs Nin’s frequently cited quote on human subjectivity. However overused, few summations could articulate the idea at the heart ...

During the time of the Spanish Civil War, Virginia Woolf received a letter from a prominent lawyer in London who asked her, perhaps provocatively: 'How, in your opinion, are we to prevent war?' In her ...

Ra’anan Alexandrowicz claims he was not conducting an experiment while filming “The Viewing Booth.” The Israeli writer and director is known for his critical views of Israel, with his portfolio ...

The line separating documentary from propaganda is often blurred as filmmakers’ biases inevitably seep into their films’ narratives, obfuscating the subjects in lieu of the artists’ political ...

“To suffer is one thing; another thing is to live with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate… Images transfix.

(JTA) A Jewish college student sits alone in a dark room watching a series of short videos. They are filmed altercations from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often violent, with some showing Israeli ...

The camera phone made everyone a documentarian. For the disenfranchised, this transformation was born of urgency. Armed with nothing more than a basic smartphone, people all over the world now have ...

Provocative in its cinematic simplicity, THE VIEWING BOOTH recounts an encounter between a filmmaker and a viewer, exploring the way meaning is attributed to non-fiction images in today's day and age.