Sentences with phrase «documentary form as»

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.

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.

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

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In her memo, Huffington said that the company would focus on both long - form documentaries and series - style shows, as well as «snackable» video content for Facebook (FB) and other social platforms.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

As with almost every documentary, the final scenes invite one to form one's own conclusions while hinting at exactly what conclusions to form.

He has gone on to reinvent himself as a centrist media figure, forming an unlikely double act with Labour MP Diane Abbott on BBC 1's This Week, hosting his own discussion show (Dinner with Portillo) and fronting documentaries on capital punishment and mental health.

She then joined WGBH's pioneering science documentary series NOVA, producing such programs as «Death of a Disease,» the first long - form documentary about the worldwide eradication of smallpox.

Known as «catfishing,» the form of digital deception has been the subject of television shows and documentaries.

Although it's been used repeatedly as a movie title, Alive and Kicking perfectly captures the joyous enthusiasm of Susan Glatzer's debut documentary, which presents swing dance as a vibrant, living art form.

The cool variation comes in the form of his drug - addled brother who believes the film crew that's following him around is documenting his big comeback — when they're really making a documentary on the effects of drug addiction and using his name as former contender to add impact.

Has sporadically intriguing moments and stylish editing, but its lack of insight, elaborations and synthesis makes it seem deficient in both form and function as a documentary.

It is largely filmed in the form of Billie's video diary and as a result has a documentary - style feel.

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.»

Refraining from applying a didactic form and eschewing the traditional trappings of a more conventional documentary such as talking heads interviews, instead Wiseman allows At Berkeley's 4 hour running time to speak for itself: static shots of a lone groundskeeper cutting the campus grass give way to glimpses of a budget cut meeting where it's revealed that said groundskeeper is Berkeley's sole grass cutter.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

As a longtime lover of documentaries, I was happy to take the deep - dive into a couple of Netflix's long - form docs.

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.

The documentary takes as its guiding premise that the United States's endemic racism toward African - Americans stems from laws and forms of governance made predominately by white men who unconsciously hate themselves.

Those consequences have, as a matter of fact, formed the basis of some of his oeuvre, such as his acclaimed 2011 documentary This is Not a Film, wherein he captured a day in... Continue reading Jafar Panahi's Taxi (Taxi Tehran)

Free to Run (Unrated) Fitness documentary revisiting the rise of running as a popular form of exercise 50 years ago.

Operating on several levels at once — as fiction, as documentary, as investigation into the documentary form, as historical excavation and as exploration of the process of a talented and committed actor --» Kate Plays Christine» which won Greene the Documentary Writing award, even finds time to be beautiful, with Sean Price Williams «cinematography giving the film an aesthetic that is as unique as idocumentary, as investigation into the documentary form, as historical excavation and as exploration of the process of a talented and committed actor --» Kate Plays Christine» which won Greene the Documentary Writing award, even finds time to be beautiful, with Sean Price Williams «cinematography giving the film an aesthetic that is as unique as idocumentary form, as historical excavation and as exploration of the process of a talented and committed actor --» Kate Plays Christine» which won Greene the Documentary Writing award, even finds time to be beautiful, with Sean Price Williams «cinematography giving the film an aesthetic that is as unique as iDocumentary Writing award, even finds time to be beautiful, with Sean Price Williams «cinematography giving the film an aesthetic that is as unique as its premise.

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.

,» «I Shot My Love»), «Mr. Gaga» is a unique documentary experience that tells the story of the internationally acclaimed choreographer Ohad Naharin, who created the daring form of dance and «movement language» known as Gaga.

While Guest's previous satires took the form of faux documentaries, but this one is done as an actual narrative.

These letters form the basis of «Trumbo,» a documentary about the writer's life based on the play «Trumbo» by his son Christopher and featuring powerful staged readings of the letters by such performers as Brian Dennehy, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, and Michael Douglas — whose father, Kirk, interviewed in the film, helped break the blacklist in 1960 by insisting that Trumbo be credited as the screenwriter for «Spartacus.»

You don't have to be an aficionado of the art form known as stepping to find the crowd - pleasing appeal in this documentary about the female step team at an inner - city Baltimore charter school that becomes a safe haven for teenagers amid volatility in their families and community.

This has much in common with Steve James's award - winning documentary Hoop Dreams as it pursues and records the moment - to - moment responses of young people struggling to improve their lot, and in doing so reveals a penetrating socio - cultural study of contemporary America through a competition described by one parent as «a form of child abuse».

Often this comes in the form of a high - quality mentor text (Patricia Polacco's «Pink and Say,» Eve Bunting's «Fly Away Home») or a shared experience such as watching a piece of a documentary (Paperclips).

We utilize original programming such as The Lonesome Losers comedy series, author interview programs, documentaries, industry news shows, production partner project programs and any other forms of online entertainment that have anything to do with books and / or reading.

These include new technology called «Project Gamma» which will add music and other audio cues to select digital comics, the already - revealed revamp of their «Marvel Unlimited» digital subscription service as a iOS - based system in addition to its desktop form, a new suite of Marvel video products online including documentary series on the companies history and a «Marvel # 1» promotion that will see the company offer over 700 first issues in its line for free for the next two days.

«The long form documentary format really made it possible for me to take the time and explain that process as well as go into some detail about the difficulties of balancing work and family responsibilities.»

... Although the video as a whole is clearly designed to sell the game play (which looks great), the real jaw dropper of this latest video entry is the first clip form a documentary titled The Goblin Man of Norway.

Fowler is a filmmaker who uses photographs, archival images and music, building experimental cinematic collages that ultimately deconstruct conventional thoughts about biography and the documentary; the viewer is drawn in and confronted with their own relationship to history and to film as an art form.

Luke Fowler is a filmmaker who uses photographs, archival images and music, building experimental cinematic collages that ultimately deconstruct conventional thoughts about biography and the documentary; the viewer is drawn in and confronted with their own relationship to history and to film as an art form.

In 1976 Jean - Luc Godard, Jean - Pierre Gorin and Anne - Marie Miéville made Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), planned as a pro-Palestinian documentary comparing the lives of one French and one Palestinian family, but expanding out to question its own ostensibly transparent form.

Working under the sign of Benjamin, «Storyteller» curators Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell grouped together fourteen artists who employ the story form as a documentary mode, setting aside Benjamin's distinction between the subjectivity of oral communication and the assumed veracity of mechanical broadcast in order to investigate the use of narrative across a swath of contemporary art.

Therefore alongside a heavy use of film, which Rosenthal highlights as «a good medium to cross the border between fiction, fact and documentary» there is a great deal of performance — be this in the form of single musical events or ongoing actions — and analogue media as well.

They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes, such as photograms and photomontages; to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera; to political and documentary engagements with themes of labor history and globalization in the 1980s; to post-appropriative forms of archival and historical reconstitution since 2000.

I was inspired to make this photogram by two things: finding in the New York Times a documentary photograph of a house blown apart by a hurricane, and thinking about the notion of shape as form in high Modernist painting.

What Neel does so well in these portraits is to hold a mirror up to uptown Manhattan of the 1940s and «50s — not as a deliberate political statement, but as a form of documentary, a personal record of the life she and her neighbours were living at the time.

By appropriating the form of pageants and publications as well as, in other cases, documentaries and advertising, General Idea was able to move art outside the gallery space, often in political ways.

The financial crisis that shook Greece can be felt most prominently in its capital, and as such this forms the subject of the documentary photographer, who often works for such publications as The New York Times or Le Monde.

LaToya Ruby Frazier's straight documentary photography has reignited this sleeping form and made it into a raging beast; Louis Fratino's personal, painterly depictions of everyday gay life raise the bar of figurative - visionary painting, as do the stitched, painted, and sewn works of Tschabalala Self; ditto Katherine Bernhardt.

As a national organization (Riks Fotograficentrum), its main goal was to promote and distribute information on photography as an artistic form with a pronounced engagement in sociopolitical and documentary issueAs a national organization (Riks Fotograficentrum), its main goal was to promote and distribute information on photography as an artistic form with a pronounced engagement in sociopolitical and documentary issueas an artistic form with a pronounced engagement in sociopolitical and documentary issues.

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.

They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes (such as photograms and photomontages), to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera, to political and documentary engagements with labor history and globalization in the 1980s and 1990s, to forms of archival and historical reconstitution made since 2000.

Stephen Thompson's Antiquities of Britain, 1872, and Albert Renger - Patzsch's prints from 1925 to 1939 chart the shift in perceiving photography as not just pure documentary but also an art form.

Though he began his career as a documentary photographer, Aaron Siskind turned away from representation and towards abstraction in the 1940s, using his camera to capture the graphic patterns, shapes, and forms he observed around him.

From early works such as Dziga Vertov's silent documentary Man with a Movie Camera (1929) through to later practitioners including Chris Marker, Harun Farocki and Chantal Akerman, there exists in the form of the essay film a continuum of attempts to understand the self - consciousness of images, and their relationship to the world in which they are made.