HUMAN-INTEREST Nº 6

DIGITAL DOCUMENTARIES WE FIND SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

Our weekly collection of visual journalism, short documentary film and feature essays dedicated to people stories from around the web. Some powerful short films this week we recommend watching...

THE WHITE HELMETS

NETFLIX

Winner of the best short documentary at the Oscars this week, this is the trailer for the 40-minute profile of the Syria Civil Defence, AKA The White Helmets. A group of ordinary men who rescue wounded and extract victims from rubble in war-torn Syria. The group was nominated for a Nobel Prize 2016. They have saved more than 58,000 people since 2013. You can read more about them here.

MINING POEMS OR ODES

SCOTTISH DOCUMENTARY INSTITUTE

An ex-welder from Glasgow reflects on how his work with his hands moulded his writing craft. A stunning short film.

REALLY

MASCOR

A short film about free-skiing - but not like you've seen before.

GOPRO CAUSE: FOREVER SECURING THE WORLD FOOD SUPPLY WITH CROP TRUST

GOPRO CAUSE

A short documentary about the perils of a failing agricultural system.

LIFE ON MARS

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Six people are living in isolation on a volcano in Hawaii to simulate life on Mars.
A 360 short documentary.

FEATURES

FAR ROAD NOTES

KONYAK : TIME WAITS FOR NO WARRIOR

These last remaining Konyak warriors are living time capsules to the past, whose stories chronicle tribal times fast-fading from the eyes of the world.

TIGER RANGERS

The tiger had finished eating the ranger’s dinner, a meal of nasi goreng chicken and rice, and now beast and man crouched a few metres from each other their eyes locked.

ANTARCTICA AND US

To stay wild the Last Great Wilderness needs us to keep it that way. Antarctica has reached into our hearts and minds and tugged at our adventurous spirit ever since the Ancient Greeks hypothesised that a great southern continent Antarktos had to exist.

VAPE CARVERS

In Bali we find a confluence of culture where technology, art and vape intersect as a new subculture emerges. In a grungy workshop in Tampaksiring, Bali a master carver sits bare chested and cross-legged under the deathly stare of animal skulls...

THE STREET SADHUS OF RISHIKESH

As dawn rolls over the shoulders of the Himalayas each morning hundreds of devout Hindu holy men bask in sunshine and bathe in azure waters of the Ganges River. The Sadhus of Rishikesh are a striking sight.

THE LOCH NESS HUNTER

Meet the Loch Ness Hunter. In 1991 Englishman Steve Feltham sold his house and all his possessions to embark on a quest to unravel the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster. He expected to be gone for two years. Twenty-six years later and he’s still searching.

I WAS SHOT IN JOBURG

That day we met the "I Was Shot In Joburg" boys. A collective of former street kids turned artists using disposable cameras to document their surroundings in Johannesburg, South Africa.

SECRETS OF THE SIKEREI

There's no distinction between daily life and the divine on Siberut, the largest island in the Mentawais and where we have travelled 60 kilometres upriver to meet animist jungle-dwelling shamans.

LONGNECKS OF LOIKAW

In the mountainside villages on the outskirts of Loikaw, Myanmar live the longneck ladies of a tribe carrying on a curious tradition steeped in mystery that is now entering an uncertain future, where tourism meets tradition.

CHOLITA WRESTLERS

The indigenous Bolivian women fighting stereotypes and grappling with decades of discrimination through wrestling. A night spent ringside with the Cholita Wrestlers.