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Film highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018

The 25th edition of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival was something of a feast of new nonfiction. We invited five of our contributors in attendance to tip us to their top finds.
Thursday 5 July 2018

Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Doc/Visions 2018: changing tides in documentary cinema

Nonfiction film is in a fascinating state of flux right now, as the creative programming at Sheffield this year revealed, with many titles expanding our ideas about cinematic reality, reports Ben Nicholson.
Tuesday 31 July 2018

Podcast: Six highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018

Kelli Weston hosts a conversation with Sophie Brown, Simran Hans and Ben Nicholson to discuss some of the picks of this year’s Sheffield documentary festival.
Thursday 5 July 2018

Exploring virtual worlds together: Alternate Realities at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018

The days of isolated immersion may be numbered as several powerful VR films at this year’s festival were designed to be experienced in groups, without a headset in sight, reports Marisol Grandon.
Wednesday 4 July 2018

Better caring through documentary?

Aspirations to documentary ‘objectivity’ may now be aesthetically discredited – but don’t they also miss a trick emotionally? Sophie Brown considers six recent exemplars of nonfiction outreach and tenderness that might be a model for the palliative-care worlds they explore.
Wednesday 4 July 2018

Scott Barley’s eternal gloaming

One-man wild landscape artist Scott Barley has been creating elegantly etherealised collages of nature’s sublime since 2012 – usually shot at dusk, sometimes including horses. “It’s when I feel most alive,” he tells Matt Turner upon the release of his first feature, Sleep Has Her House – “to be in such awe that you’re rendered small, meaningless and afraid.”
Wednesday 4 July 2018

Nathaniel Dorsky’s Arboretum Cycle: the photosynthesis of film

The artist-filmmaker captures a rare sculptural quality of light in his latest work, which comprises seven films of plant life in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, plunging the audience into the undergrowth, writes Matt Turner.
Tuesday 31 July 2018