Many times we have at our disposal platforms that provide an incredible offer of streaming content, and we don’t even realize it. Either because the platforms themselves are quite niche and, therefore, unknown, or because they launch before you a catalog of little-known jewels where you don’t really know where to start.
In the case of Caixaforum+, a relatively recent initiative, we find surprises such as essential films by Agnès Varda or a wide variety of documentaries. To make it easier to enter, here they go three wonderful documentary pieces with which not to fail. They are completely free, you just have to create an account and start working.
‘20,000 days on Earth’ (‘20,000 Days on Earth’, 2014)
Address: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard. Interventions by: Nick Cave, Susie Cave, Warren Ellis, Darian Leader, Ray Winstone, Blixa Bargeld, Kylie Minogue.
A fascinating mix between reality and fiction where the musician Nick Cave explores with us his own creative process, the role of art in shaping who we are and intimacy with some of his closest people. An unconventional and poetic approach that they give to an attractive and suggestive audiovisual experience.
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard make good use of visual tools to make a unique emotional journey, which completely dodges the limitations of the music documentary to get deeper into the spirit of the music made by this particular artist. Between deceit and surprising traces of honesty, details of reflection and also jokes are beating that are more than striking.
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‘Gimme Danger’ (2016)
Address: Jim Jarmusch. Interventions by: Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, James Williamson, Ewan McGregor.
Another more than interesting music documentary, less poetic and more biographical but which finds points where it knows how to distinguish itself. It’s hard not to be swept away by the historical significance of a band like The Stooges, who propelled rock music in a grittier, more aggressive and maverick directionas visceral as capable of flying freely when he considered it necessary.
Jim Jarmusch offers his particular sensitivity so that all the edges around these artists shine, the movement they propelled. The conductor finds the most human and less glorious details of the musicians that he explores, a collection of mavericks who weren’t really meant to make it. But at least they changed music forever.
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‘Honeyland’ (2019)
Address: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov. Interventions of: Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam.
One of those documentaries that made history by winning both the category of best documentary at the Oscars and the best international film. He didn’t take any (it’s difficult when your competition is ‘Parasites’ and Barack Obama), but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t stop having value as a study of some interesting characters whose life is about to become completely obsolete.
A Macedonian woman is the last bee collector in all of Europe, raising colonies without much help to collect the honey that he will later sell in the capital. His life will be turned upside down with the arrival of some very noisy and unruly neighbors who will disturb the tranquility of his farm and his domestic life. A poetic and bittersweet exploration of the delicate balances that shape our worlds and whether they are worth fighting to preserve.
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