Sentences with phrase «documentary form»

This film about fierce competition among classic video - game players is a comic action epic in documentary form.

When video games are covered and thoroughly explained in documentary form, the quality factor improves dramatically.

As with many of Campbell's works The Welfare of Tomás ó Hallissy questions the validity of documentary form as historical representation, blurring fact, and fiction, recording and interpretation.

The first two - thirds of «Popstar» use documentary form to gleefully, and savagely, skewer celebrity in the age of nonstop social media, as well as the celebrity - crazed news cycle in which wardrobe malfunctions are breaking news, intimate moments are live - streamed and Big Gulp - swilling entertainment gossip journalists snark the pain away.

Of course there are films that mock documentary form much more directly, including Peter Watkins's The Battle of Culloden, Jim McBride's David Holzman's Diary, and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane and F for Fake.

(Welles also mocked the radio documentary form with his War of the Worlds broadcast.)

Mitch Epstein's acclaimed series American Power is currently on display in Paris at the Henri Cartier - Bresson Foundation, through July 24, and is also included in New Documentary Forms at the Tate Modern in London, through March 31, 2012.

Pioneering documentarian John Grierson defined documentary form as «the creative treatment of actuality,» and the remarkable new film «Notes on Blindness» fully reflects the creative way to tackle nonfiction storytelling.

He brought the story of Mildred and Richard Loving (already told in documentary form by Nancy Buirski) to Nichols, who responded: «I think this story can be very successful, but I'm probably not the one to make a mainstream version of this movie.»

Jessica Bardsley is a film and video - based artist working in experimental documentary forms.

The survey, which was organized by Massimiliano Gioni, Margot Norton, and Natalie Bell, was dominated by work from the past decade, when Sala's ongoing ruminations on past versus present — initially expressed in a more - or-less straightforward documentary form — moved toward more elliptical studies of sited music renditions.

Reconciliation Australia, NITV and SBS have proudly partnered to launch the Reconciliation Film Club, an online platform that supports organisations to host screenings of a curated selection of Indigenous documentaries form Australia's leading Indigenous film makers.

The watch - list creates a divide in taste on music and documentary form with Brett Morgan's Montage of Heck.

Bühler and Mariani make their process part of the narrative, deconstructing the documentary form while delving into Kirk's copious digital life.

The Playlist is also a major supporter, claiming «fans of Polley's work to date will be delighted by a documentary that serves simultaneously as a gripping mystery, a moving record of a family and a fascinating investigation into the nature of truth, memory, and the documentary form itself.»

There's no attempt to play off other loony - bin documentaries like Loose Change, or any trace of a serious effort to keep us guessing to the authenticity of the documentary form.

There's a real love and interest in the documentary form.

Simultaneously released as both a 241 - minute theatrical movie and a six - part Netflix mini-series, it's a masterpiece that breathes new life into the documentary form, and further confirms Morris» peerless greatness.

But these films weren't so much mocking the documentary form as mocking documentary content.

We are looking for something new in the use of the documentary form, whether the projects are journalistic or creative, observational or aesthetic, objective or personal.

Reality Bites aims to encourage experimentation and a fresh approach to short non-fiction filmmaking and the Film Board are looking for something new in the use of the documentary form, whether the projects are journalistic or creative, observational or aesthetic, objective or personal.

Paradise goes up in flames in The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, a stranger - than - fiction murder mystery in documentary form.

A nationally touring retrospective offers an opportunity to assess his crucial contribution to the documentary form

They are looking for something new in the use of the documentary form, whether the projects are journalistic or creative, observational or aesthetic, objective or personal.

Since that time, Jia has spent time working in both the documentary form (Dong; I Wish I Knew) and through something approaching both documentary and narrative cinema (Still Life; 24 City), effectively — almost imperceptibly — combining devices from each in an effort at constructing an altogether new hybrid.

I'm honored to have been asked to join such an illustrious group of jurors and know that the way I think about the documentary form has evolved thanks to the opportunity to watch and discuss the Sundance Film Festival's Class of 2015.

To see her extend her talents to documentary form will be interesting, to say the least.

In «Exit's» case, it's the documentary form.

I may believe that this story would best be told in documentary form, but there is no denying that it's a reminder of the power of love, and the spirit of Boston and America.

He met with the mountain climber in 2006 seeking permission, but at the time, Ralston was looking to convey the story in documentary form.

This year's True / False bursted with new possibilities for the documentary form: The career scrapbooking of cinematographer Kristen Johnson's Cameraperson, the polemical impressionism of Petition director Zhao Liang's Behemoth, the slow - cinema aesthetic of Sergio Oksman's narratively structured O Futebol, and whatever truth or fallacy of fiction ultimately informs the nucleus of hometown Columbia hero Robert Greene's deliberate, obscurantist acting exercise Kate Plays Christine.

The exhibition places special emphasis on the way in which the drawings Takamatsu made on a daily basis exerted a subtle and comprehensive effect on his practice; how the artist viewed his book designs and illustrations as opportunities to present a special type of work; and attempts to understand the actual conditions surrounding Takamatsu's creative process based on works that are only extant in documentary form.

Today, the DC and Bochum commissions exist only in documentary form.

Using both archival and filmed material, his films question our reading of the documentary form as a fixed representation of reality, opening up the boundaries between the actual and the imagined, record and interpretation.

She is the author of three books: Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (Columbia University Press), Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists (University of Chicago Press), and Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form (Harvard University Press).

He is renowned for innovating with the boundaries of the documentary form and the format of the film essay.

Curated by Okwui Enwezor with Rory Bester, the exhibition proposes a complex understanding of photography and the aesthetic power of the documentary form and honors the exceptional achievement of South African photographers.

Of the same generation of German superstars as Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff, Joachim Brohm was similarly much influenced by Bernd and Hilla Becher's conceptual approach to the documentary form in the 1970s.

By mixing archival footage and new material, he questions and challenges the documentary form.»

The 2010 edition of Documentary Fortnight, MoMA «s ninth annual festival of international nonfiction film, includes 20 feature and 23 mid-length and short documentaries that represent the wide range of creative categories that extend the idea of the documentary form.