With her long figure, dark hair and black dress, Vampira is probably the original Goth icon, having established this trademark look years before Siouxsie Sioux emerged from the punk scene. The creator of a pioneering late-night Horror show, she is probably better known these days for her role in Ed Wood’s “masterwork”, Plan 9 From Outer Space. Originally discovered in [...]

The opening scene of this music documentary is surprisingly fluid and arresting: We follow a young woman as she walks joyful, almost dancing, through a train. As she inexorably advances through the wagons, she runs into a wide array of musicians before finally joining her own band mates. This girl is a member of the Los Angeles-based psychedelic group Edward [...]

Mark Kendall’s La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus shows the journey of a school bus, from being sold at an auction in Pennsylvania to enjoying its new colorful life as public transportation in rural Guatemala. What’s interesting here is that we get to follow the bus through each of the steps that will bring it closer to [...]

When watching documentaries, people tend to mostly assess the work based on the strength of the subject. They value the content more than the format and if a documentary delivers a powerful or emotional message, they will embrace it without paying much attention to the vehicle itself. Reportero is one of those films that definitely affect spectators. Using the story [...]