There is a truism in documentary filmmaking that group projects hardly ever work. Too many cooks, too many stories. Even more of a challenge? Saying something new and different about mass public protests. So the odds were stacked against this collaboration between 32 Spanish film students and the Russian master (and T/F True Vision honoree) Victor Kossakovsky. But through some strange alchemy, they created this soulful, often poetic portrait of the face of the protester, a face both familiar (the requisite Guy Fawkes mask) and fresh (an old man, pushed too far). That alchemy arises, in part, from the genius pairing of the ballet Don Quixote with these eruptions of the desire for change. It’s stirred with a sense of playfulness and brought to boil through a maestro’s attention to sound and image. Maybe this project shouldn’t have worked, but Demonstration leaps the barricades to reveal a fresh perspective on the act of protest. Plays with “Foundry Night Shift” (dir. Steven Bognar, 5 min.). (DW)