Sentences with phrase «documentary format»

Part road trip, part self - help manifesto, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead defies the traditional documentary format to present an unconventional and uplifting story of two men from different worlds who each realize that the only person who can save them is themselves.

Perhaps it's the strange title, or the pseudo documentary format.

It relishes its juvenile humor, and it's always able to take it as far as it wants because of the somberness of the sports documentary format.

«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.»

Farocki's practice is largely defined by an experimental documentary format integrating his own material with footage appropriated from various sources, including mass media, surveillance, and political propaganda.

Featuring subject matter ranging from internet ethics to the abuse of government power, the works employ documentary formats as a strategy to construct counternarratives and allow the viewer to bear witness to both individual and collective realities.

Jackie Nickerson: «Terrain» (through Feb. 15) Jackie Nickerson works in a traditional social documentary format, and her photographs ripple with politics, particularly around the issues of food production, agribusiness and labor.

In the festival's first year of the BIFFDOCS competition, the documentary format comes to the fore with 19 offerings — Jafar Panahi's This is Not a Film and Morgan Spurlock's Comic - Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope among them.

«Teenage»: Matt Wolf re-energizes the documentary format with a refreshingly stylized and impressionistic overview of the birth and evolution of the teenager.

Few have managed to pull this off successfully in the documentary format without being trite or egotistical.

I, Tonya is heavy on gimmicks, using not only a documentary format and «irony free» and «wildly contradictory» talking - head interviews — think To Die For — but also breaking the fourth wall, which crosses the documentary format but doesn't screw up the film.

What makes this piece unique is its documentary format, as the aforementioned entries were docudramas, criticized by some for indulging in speculation and paranoid conspiracy theories.

As if the content itself wasn't so blisteringly captivating, «Kate Plays Christine» also boasts the kind of sumptuous cinematography that you'd never associate with the documentary format.

I actually started in filmmaking with a narrative short and thought that I'd make narrative features, but the documentary format is a really good fit, obviously, with my training.

A hypnotic film that turns the documentary format into an oral autobiographical post-mortem on the life of one of Hollywood's greatest actors.

Thus, the documentary format; to uncover facts, tell the truth and be able to deliver it to everyone.

Whilst Time Passes assumes a documentary format, in fact, it is scripted, staged and performed, harnessing the tension between art practice and creativity on one hand, and «real life» on the other.

Freedom Requires Free People, 2011, follows a documentary format to explore issues of freedom and ownership of public space from the perspective of a primary school child who considers school to be a form of imprisonment and an infringement of his liberty.