Sentences with phrase «documentary filmmaking as»

Stephanie Acosta is a multidisciplinary artist focused on the exploration of the experiential, incorporating concrete objects, created environments, solo and ensemble performances, along with experimental and documentary filmmaking as modes of inquiry.

His films consider methods of narrative, ethnographic, and documentary filmmaking as the starting point for structural experimentation.

Host Eric Hynes and filmmaker Alma Har «el (of the stunning, singular doc - musical Bombay Beach) stroll past the skateboarders and bubble - blowers of New York's Central Park to discuss the spectacle of bodies in motion and documentary filmmaking as an act of creative collaboration.

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I live and work in Los Angeles as a network television editor (The Real World, RuPaul's Drag Race, Epic Meal Time — and I have a background in documentary filmmaking and music videos (University of Southern California Cinema - Television degree).

It's as a documentary that Downtown 81 is most successful, particularly at those moments when the somewhat unfocused filmmaking allows us to look past the foreground characters and catch glimpses of a vanished cityscape.

Getting his start working on TV commercials, Mann took his rapid - paced, flash - cut approach into documentary filmmaking, producing an award - winning short on the 1968 French student riots, Janpuri.Mann's fragmented - image technique further manifested itself on such TV detective series of the»70s such as Starsky and Hutch and Vegas, both of which utilized his scripts (though they were directed by others in the standard conventional style of the period).

In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly moving documentary, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow engage in a personal and candid discussion with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach to the craft of filmmaking and his remarkable experiences navigating the film business, from his early days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as a respected veteran of the field.

Insightful all the way through, «Side By Side» is a great documentary, filled with tons of well - known celebrities as they talk about their thoughts on the conversion from digital filmmaking and the future of the industry.

Made in America is a somewhat special case, as many documentaries are, blending an episodic structure with the more epic scope of filmmaking.

As a result, ethical questions about this kind of documentary filmmaking are rising up.

As the world of documentary filmmaking grows and grows, biography docs are among the most popular and easiest to sell.

Just as modernist painting bears the traces of the painter's movements and presence, and modernist literature has moved toward the first - person essay, the autobiography, and the diary, so the strain of modernist filmmaking that was launched with the French New Wave has integrated the filmmaker's methods with the movie itself, and turned fictions into documentaries about their making.

It also highlights the effort that Linklater has made in support of Independent filmmaking and how he was influential in helping create the Austin Film Society whereby old film prints could be saved and showed, as well as raising money from filmmakers to help make more films.Overall, it does little but scratch the surface and a bit more in - depth analysis to his films would have been welcome but to paraphrase Billy Bob Thornton on the outtakes at the end; «Rick Linklater doesn't need anyone to make a documentary about him.

A legend in New York and documentary filmmaking, Albert Maysles» posthumous «In Transit» tugs appropriate heartstrings as it follows passengers on the nation's most highly trafficked train route «The Empire Builder.»

While low budget, «They All Come Out» is an interesting film that does offer a different point of view and look at the prison system, as well as an intersting blend of documentary and narrative filmmaking.

For personal reasons, though, as well as personal tastes, Montage of Heck was 145 minutes of fascination, excitement, and enlightenment, a clear standout in a year where there were ample amounts of superb, documentary filmmaking.

The idea for the documentary came just as the filmmaking team were finishing up a previous project.

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

We could have devoted this entire week to praising documentaries — Dana and Amy and Kam, you've championed Wormwood and Casting JonBenet and The Work — so I'm going to go to bat for a movie that has stayed with me as filmmaking, as storytelling, and as an act of personal courage, Strong Island.

As one of my filmmaking projects I made a documentary for the Ministry of Agriculture on a watermelon ceremony that takes place each year in a town near Austin.

As noted by Prosper Hillairet and Sandy Flitterman - Lewis in Surimpressions, Dulac's The Seashell and the Clergyman already includes aspects of the kind of documentary filmmaking that she would dedicate herself to making in the 1930s for Gaumont.

From this pattern, Polley's film seems to forward an argument about autobiography and documentary filmmaking: that these are plural, collaborative genres most effectively and truthfully made through a chorus of many and diverse voices, a «medley» as her other sister, Susy, describes it, each given freedom as well as equal weight.

The movie has its merits: the final 30 minutes, in which we see Gordon - Levitt's Petit preen and twirl in the sky as aggravated police officers try to snatch him from either end of the cable, is an exhilarating piece of filmmaking that you won't find in Marsh's documentary and must be watched in a theater, in 3 - D.

Jim McBride's influential 1967 «David Holzman's Diary» (Lorber Films), a faux - documentary portrait of personal filmmaking as narcissistic self - involvement, debuts on DVD and Blu - ray following a recent theatrical revival.

As I wrote in my review of this four hour Frederick Wiseman picture, «Wiseman is a master of «Look ma, no self - awareness» documentary filmmaking that analyzes itself without seeming to analyze itself.»

Varda has experimented with all forms of filmmaking from shorts to documentaries to narrative feature films during her more than 60 - year career, including such works as the New Wave classic Cleo from 5 to 7, and Le Bonheur.

The documentary engages in a candid discussion with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach to the craft of filmmaking and his experiences navigating the film business, from his early days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as respected veteran.

Along with Lost in La Mancha, about director Terry Gilliam's failed attempt to adapt Don Quixote, Jodorowsky's Dune ranks as one of the best documentaries about filmmaking ever made.

As you would guess, «Shooting for Perfection: Hyatt & JetBlue Behind - the - Scenes» (4:52) supplies similar treatment for the film's other two ads, with Spurlock explaining how they took shape and how making them differs from documentary filmmaking.

Director Robert Greene started filming Burre as she tried to start acting again, showing the difficult process while exploring some fascinating themes on subjectivity in our own lives as well as documentary filmmaking.

Although Life Itself is not exactly groundbreaking in terms of documentary filmmaking, it serves as a superb tribute that will leave Roger Ebert fans delighted and inspired.

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this weekend, collects 175 pictures, vintage work prints, never - before - seen films and ephemera from Lyon's archives to take an in - depth look at his work as an immersive documentary storyteller who is just as engaged in writing, filmmaking and collage as is he in photography.

Applying strategies of sampling, role play, and documentary filmmaking to capture individuals» longings and the ways in which they imagine themselves — as hip - hop musicians, costumed characters, or digitized alter egos — Cao Fei reveals the discrepancy between reality and dream, and the discontent and disillusionment of China's younger generation.

He has organized series around themes such as color filmmaking in the silent era, exploitation films, sex in Hollywood film, the British New Wave, the global food industry, Oscar - winning documentaries, and rock music documentaries.

It was on this path, a few years into her 26 - year stint working for Newsday as a writer and art critic and her other job of writing television essays for Public Television's «The MacNeil / Lehrer Report» that she met the artist Louise Bourgeois and then found her way into the world of documentary filmmaking.

Fusing art, documentary filmmaking, journalism and ethnographic research, Sekula immersed himself in the world of international shipping, journeying on board commercial vessels around the world between major ports such as Athens and Yokohama.

Frank ultimately turned his sites from photography to filmmaking, creating classics of American subculture including «Pull My Daisy,» as well as a documentary of a Rolling Stones tour in 1972 (unreleased).

A voracious drawer as a child, Tarr advanced to collage, filmmaking and video documentaries among his many creative interests.

I live and work in Los Angeles as a network television editor (The Real World, RuPaul's Drag Race, Epic Meal Time — and I have a background in documentary filmmaking and music videos (University of Southern California Cinema - Television degree).