It lives in this in between place, a narrative feature infused
with documentary elements, and writer - director Bart Layton manages to spectacularly stick that tricky landing.
Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, this film is a «docu - drama» hybrid, meaning it's a fictional feature film but uses
real documentary elements.
Not all of these films are, strictly speaking, children's films, and some are documentaries; but most of them feature children, and in many respects they establish a particular kind of filmmaking that The White Balloon exemplifies: loosely scripted narratives
with documentary elements that employ mainly nonprofessional actors.
I suppose there's also
a documentary element, or at least an autobiographical one, in Lady Bird, the second feature written and directed by Greta Gerwig, and the first she's done solo.
«My work always contains
a documentary element.
Following the ideas of Conceptual artists of the 60's, he then added photography as
a documentary element.