Fog of Truth

Justina and Bart talk about the role of labor in the past and the present and discuss films that deal with labor.

John Justina and Bart DIscuss documentaries that deal with Abortion rights. 

John, Justina, and Bart talk about gun documentaries. 

Justina John and Bart talk about "Catagory: Woman" a film that played at Hot Docs, there are some hot takes.

Justine and Bart talk about the film Fireboys and have an interview with one of the directors Jake Hochendoner

Justina, John and Bart talk about films seen at SXSW, Oxford Film Festival, and Thin Line Fest

Justina, John and Bart have a late-night discussion about Dick Johnson is Dead, Sundance Docs, Tik Tok Docs, Annie Hall, and a funeral with dogs.  

Summre talks about her favorite documentaries that will be playing at the Slamdance Film Festival.

John, Justina, and Bart talk about Robert Greens's Procession, Sundance, and industrial Musicals. 

Justina, John, and Bart discuss their top 10 documentary lists of 2021, and former Fog of Truth co-host Christopher Llewellyn Reed chimes in his updates about him, his top 10 list, and his love life.

John Bart and Guest Host Bruce Richardson talk Beatles 

John, Justina, and Bart talk about The Neutral Ground 

John Justina and Bart interview Keith Maitland about his new film "Dear Mr. Broady"

We are back, with new hosts Justina Walford and John Wildman. This week we review  Morgan Neville's "Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain"

In this bonus episode, we invite back our former cohost Summre Garber to talk about the documentary slate at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival , where she is co-captain of the documentary-features program. Then we all discuss, in depth, the following three films: Code Name: Nagasaki , Everyone Wants to Be the Next Weismann and Holy Frit . This episode marks the departure of Chris Reed as permanent...

In this bonus episode, cohosts Bart and Chris revisit their favorite documentaries of 2020, and then invite, each in turn, six guest hosts from the past year to chat about their own favorites. Those guests, in alphabetical order, are: Hannah Buchdahl , Sandie Angulo Chen , Leslie Combemale , Roxana Hadadi , Lisa Sanchelo and Debra Zimmerman . Chris and Bart each gave a Top 10, while our guests eac...

We wrap up Season 10 with returning guest host Anuradha Rana  (Associate Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, DePaul University) as we review Daniel Lombroso's White Noise , a profile of some of the current leading figures among the alt-right. This leads to a discussion of the dangers of turning one's lens on problematic ideologues, given how the camera may amplify their message even as it deconst...

We have our second new guest host of the season join us this week: Inkoo Kang , formerly of Slate and now of The Hollywood Reporter . Together, we review the new Showtime documentary Citizen Bio , which profiles the late Aaron Traywick and his (not so) merry band of biohackers at Ascendance Biomedical, and pair that with an interview that Bart and Chris conduct with Sharon Shattuck, one of the dir...

This week, as the conclusion to the 2020 election season looms, and everyone anxiously awaits the results, we examine the grotesque incompetence, selfishness and venality of Donald Trump and others in his administration, as evidenced by their response to the coronavirus pandemic, through the lens of Alex Gibney's latest documentary, Totally Under Control (made with co-directors Ophelia Harutyunyan...

The internet and its many connected sites and apps is a fraught place, filled with algorithms that manipulate the user beyond what she or he comes close to realizing. Both films we discuss this week, The Social Dilemma and Feels Good Man , look at the more sinister aspects of online culture. Returning guest host Jennifer Proctor joins us a for a review of the first, and then Bart and Chris intervi...

Our nation's 39th president, Jimmy Carter, is on the documentary docket this week as we review Mary Wharton's Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President , joined by returning guest host Sedika Mojadidi . That film looks at Carter's love of music and how it helped shape both his insurgent 1976 campaign and his time in the White House, revealing the compassionate humanitarian in all his glory. Then, Bart a...

We are back! We start Season 10 with two documentaries about the animal kingdom: Bird Island and Space Dogs . With returning guest host Leslie Combemale (owner of ArtInsights Gallery ), we review the former, and then Bart and Chris interview Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, the directors of the latter. Given the political season and the upcoming episodes that deal with all of that fraught material, w...

In this special bonus episode, the last before we begin our momentous Season 10 … can you believe it? … Bart and Chris revisit some favorite moments from past shows, including: all the previous clip-montage intros; excerpts from our interviews with filmmakers Chelsea Hernandez, Stanley Nelson and Morgan Neville; an excerpt from Bart's interview with Patricia Aufderheide about Fair Use; an opening...

In this bonus episode, Bart and Chris interview filmmaker Laurens Grant , first briefly reviewing two of her documentaries, the 2016 Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement and the brand-new Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier , before launching into an in-depth examination of her career. Both a director and a producer, Grant has a lot to say about the art, craft and business of document...

In this final episode of our 9th season, film critic Hannah Buchdahl (of chickflix.net ) joins us to review the upcoming documentary on the many battles fought on our behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union in the age of Donald Trump, The Fight . Then, Bart and Chris interview Ramona Diaz about her (also upcoming) A Thousand Cuts , which profiles the challenges faced by journalist Maria Ressa...