“Bottled Songs” strongly asserts its interest for certain disparate elements of war, in the search of nuances and details which tend to get lost in the maelstrom of totalizing visions. From the biography of a war reporter who navigates troubled waters to the analysis of visual production of the Islamic State, the movie is built as a digital correspondence in which, based on the means provided by the personal computer, two points of view complete each other and meet halfway, in an example of camaraderie in the pursuit of truth. The two directors of the movie, Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee, already established as tutelary figures of the genre known as desktop documentary, offer here a masterclass in the precision of the investigative gesture and dexterity in the handling of the image, diligently accompanying us through the swampy terrain which is the Internet. What results is a contextualization of the recent military conflicts, where hasty answers are deliberately avoided in the name of an ambitious debate on information, power, and audiovisual media. A co-authored multilayered testimony which enriches cinema’s formal resources. (Victor Morozov)