2018: MY FAVORITE DOCS OF THE YEAR (ranked)

Compared to 2017, this year’s doc scene felt somehow less vibrant (if stats have any value, I listed half the number of entries but I’ve seen the same amount). Nonetheless, two YouTube montages stood out: The Road Movie and Our New President, both set in Russia and both dealing with the post-tv mediascape. The former dispenses an overdose of dash-cam footage to provide a post-human look at the state of the country through the eyes of vehicular subjectivity (in a sense, The Road Movie is the ultimate Ballardian film). The latter is an assemblage of Russian propaganda aimed at both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump collected from...