MIFF 2017 - Day 4

So, what happened to days 1, 2 and 3? My gall bladder, unfortunately. But I'm back on deck and in the MIFF mood...

Trophy

Enter the morally gray world of African animal conservation. From trophy hunting that pays for conservation efforts, to rhino farming that increases their numbers while trading their ivory, it's going to challenge you. And what you're left with is the sense that moral absolutism is not going to save these animals. But it also depresses you with the stark fact that unless there's a value placed on the animals, they're unlikely to survive.

A Revolution of Sound - Tangerine Dream

A great doco on the pioneering band using Edgar Frosse's life as its narrative through line. It's follows the different phases of the band line up and their adventures scoring films in Hollywood. It never gets very deep, but addresses the philosophy driving the band's creative style and gives a great overview of one of the most important bands in electronic music.

A Gray State

A film maker and his wife and child are found dead in their home. Allah Akbar is written in blood on the wall. It was a murder suicide. As one of his friends states, all that's missing is the why. And we will never really know. But we do get the story of a family descending into madness as they fall in with the alt right. The crime becoming another conspiracy they must unravel. It's a complex portrait of a very unusual situation. Not satisfying, but that's because the reality is unsatisfying. But it is grimly fascinating.