DOX
Documentary Film Magazine
Bimonthly Magazine from Copenhagen ,Denmark
Ceased publication

- First and last issue: 1993-2014 fall
- An international English language film magazine dedicated entirely to cover all aspects of the documentary genre.
- An insight into the work of documentary filmmakers, reports on distribution and production possibilities, reflexions on new formalistic and aesthetic developments, reviews of significant new films and a platform for discussion.
- Issue “0” was made for The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 1993.
- In 1994 it became a regular, English language magazine called, Dox: documentary film quarterly.
- Due to financial problems the magazine moved to Copenhagen in 1997.
- From issue 12 it is bimonthly published from Denmark and called Dox: documentary film magazine.
- Published by European Documentary Network
- Website: www.dox.dk

Pier Paolo Pasolini was an ardent critic of his age. A recently reconstructed documentary film by him gives us an insight into many of his critiques - on war, the media, beauty, work and religion.

06 ISLAND: Victim of economic hit men

Two Icelandic films from the producers at Ground Control Productions show us Iceland past and present and look at the impetus to protest in the face of capitalist ecology.

08 CANNES: How did it happen?

How can cinema reflect and explain the complexities of the 2008 economic crisis? Three films presented at Cannes this year may an totally different ways. A fiction blockbuster like Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; a talking head documentary like Inside Job, and a mock trial featuring real witnesses, lawyers and judge: Cleveland versus Wall Street.

10 SUNDANCE: The semantic web

Internet was the social media revolution that created connections between people and pages. The new Web 3.0 is more of a "semantic web" that understands content. We visited the Sundance Panel on Net Evolution.

12 ANSELM KIEFER: Village of ruins

Imagine a painting crammed full of details but all you actually see is a vast texture. DOX met Sophie Fiennes to talk about her translation of Kiefer's art into documentary film.

15 POLAND: Andrzej Wajda school

DOX takes a look at The Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, Warsaw, Poland.

16 POLAND: Warsaw and Krakow

In Warsaw the events focus on bringing acclaimed foreign documentaries to Polish audiences, in Krakow the Festival concentrates on promoting Polish films to an international audience.

18 POLAND: Short matters

Krakow film festival knows how to appreciate the short genre. One of the beauties of short film is its lack of dramaturgical rules and restraints and the opportunity it presents to experiment with form.

20 WORKSHOP: Binger Filmlab

DOX reports from an 18-month workshop. This is the first of three reports from the Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab.

22 RWANDA: 'Disease' of humanity

Beate Arnestad is proving to be one of Norway's most interesting international filmmakers at the moment. From addressing the plight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, she went on to track a major court case after the genocide in Rwanda. Her documentaries depict individuals under extreme pressure.

24 DISASTERS: Empathy and action

Features, reality TV series, blogs and websites provide new ways to document and help the victims of earthquakes around the world.

28 FORMATS: Taste of a film

Swedish commissioning editor Tove TorbioΕNrnsson reflects on what formatting does to the ways in which we shape reality.

30 PHOTO: Tine Poppe

This time DOX presents the Norwegian photographer Tine Poppe, who has been back stage in the old opera of Oslo and on the streets of Buenos Aires.

34 EDINBURGH: About absence

The orangutan Nenette in Philibert's film is like the Mona Lisa: a victim of her rarity, drained by curiosity. The Edge of Dreaming also explores the "unseen".

36 EL SALVADOR: Family substitute

The director's tragic destiny in the aftermath of the making and release of The Crazy Life adds to the documentary's already dubiously macabre tensions. He introduces us to the Mara members.

38 US: The twilight people

Stonewall Uprising illustrates another great step forward in the story of human rights. The gay community organized en masse in 1968, and fought back with a vengeance.

40 US: Surrogate families

The American car is a dominant metaphor for the proverbial American way of life. Going against the grain, the workers at General Motors form the strong emotional core of this film.

42 BOXING: Two films

In To Fight For we see the European approach based on dialogue and consensus versus The Streets Stop Here where the American approach employs threat and confrontation.

42 GREECE: Unemployment

Grief: Little Tales of Unemployment: A unique insight into the psychologically fraught world of the unemployed in Greece. p.42

46 IRAN: THER CRITIQUES

For Neda: the tragic story of the 29-year-old Neda Agha Soltan who was shot dead, during a street protest in Iran. p.46

Iran's Revolutionary Guard points to fresh dissent within oppressive regime in film from Guardianfilms. Mark Taylor comments. p.47

44-54 THREE THER CRITIQUES

Collapse: A defeatist bombast that hopelessly debunks alternatives to saving economic civilization. p.44 Bill Cunningham: He travels about New York City on his bicycle shooting photos of people. A man with immense integrity. p.48 A Small Act: About supporting an African. Education is the only thing that can change someone's life. p. 54

52 ESSAY: A film about a film

Pier Paolo Pasolini recasts the classical documentary structure into a kind of meta-film or third genre between film and documentary. The result is a spurious, hybrid product, writes Maria Tarantino.

55-58 NOTEWORTHY FILMS