Sentences with phrase «as documentary realism»

It is utterly delightful filmmaking, though hardly intended as documentary realism.

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Scenes of government violence, such as the Soweto massacre, are shot with documentary realism, lending them a TV news - style feeling of actuality.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

For the most part, the delicate, meandering project serves as an intriguing showcase for Pacino and Green at once, bringing his world to life with a mixture of documentary realism and subtle fantasy.

What You Need To Know: Michel Gondry «s films are generally regarded as surrealist and wacky, but this discounts the realism and community concerns found in documentaries and docu - dramas like «The Thorn In The Heart,» «The We And The I,» and even the second half of «Be Kind Rewind.»

Also known as AC - 3, Dolby Digital delivers up to 5.1 discrete channels of surround sound to add realism and depth to feature films, documentaries, and shorts.

With Paik one has the TV set as digital object, with him or Paul McCarthy the record of a performance, with Michael Snow or Doug Aitken a dismantling of perception with roots in alternative film, with Cory Arcangel or» Digital Media» a primitive video game, with Cai Guo - Qiang or Omar Fast a tradition of documentary realism, and with Joan Jonas or Gary Hill a disruption akin to a philosophical debate.

For the FotoFocus Biennial 2016, participating venues are invited to propose exhibitions that examine the wide sphere of activity between photography's documentary tradition and such challenged notions as «objectivity,» or «authenticity;» to photography as a means of questioning «realism» and «reality;» to photography as a medium easily capable of fictions of fabrications.

The style of Gérome's oriental works, realistic in content and classicizing in technique, is often described as «academic realism» or «Academism» and thus provide great documentary value to historians.

A leading documentary photographer who was active in the New York Photo League in the 1930s, Siskind moved beyond the social realism of his early work as he increasingly came to view photography as a visual language of signs, metaphors, and symbols — the equivalent of poetry and music.

Born in 1947, Shore spearheaded themovement in the United States in the 1970s, and became a major catalyst in the renewal of documentary photography in the late 1990s, both in the US and Europe, blending the tradition of American photographers such as Walker Evans with influences from various artistic movements, including Pop, Conceptualism, and even Photo - Realism.