Our Newspaper
“Our Newspaper” offers a subtle portrait of a brave man who refuses to toe the official line. Journalist Andrei Shkolny plies his trade in the remote countryside of Russia. Dismayed by the “happy news” he was required to report at the state-run regional paper, the uncompromising Shkolny quit and created his own independent weekly, Nasha Gazeta (Our Paper), which now has about 7,000 readers. Writing about the hardscrabble life of the region, Shkolny refuses to ignore the harsh realities of contemporary Russia. Instead of praise for golden harvests, Our Paper reports on a village that has had no water for three months, a river whose fish are killed by factory runoff, and a doctor who travels icy roads by rickety bicycle to care for her housebound patients. The authorities are not amused.
which reconstructs the world’s first media interview, shot in Paris in August 1886, and features narration by filmmaker Agnes Varda; and Library of Dust (Robert James & Ondi Timoner, U.S., 2011, 17 min.), which explores photographer David Maisel’s work documenting the corroded copper urns containing the cremated remains of patients at the Oregon State Hospital.
