Sentences with phrase «documentary genre»

It melds the horror and documentary genres together to talk about a weird and haunting topic.

Bustin» Down the Door The latest entry in the time - honored surfing documentary genre, joining the likes of «Step Into Liquid» and «Riding Giants,» this film profiles the group of brash Australians and South Africans who challenged Hawaiians at their own sport in the mid-1970s.

District 9 is an interesting concept (borrowed from other «fake» documentary genre films), but the script was a mess and the film needed better structuring and themes.

Founded in 1983, by festival director Ally Derks, it is unique for its international film program featuring a wide variety of documentary genres with political and socially conscious themes.

Evans, who has been described by the Metropolitan Museum as having «the nuance of a poet and the precision of a surgeon», is regarded today as the progenitor of the American documentary genre.

Infra initiates a dialogue with photography that begins as an intoxicating meditation on a broken documentary genre, but ends as a haunting elegy for a vividly beautiful land touched by unspeakable tragedy.

A gem of the documentary genre, Errol Morris» movie looks at the wrongful conviction of a Texas man.

Some thoughts on the latest of a growing number of food - and health - related documentaries, along with some thoughts about this documentary genre, in general.

Elevated out of the music - documentary genre to become something of an intriguing mystery — and one with no neat solution.

The annual IDA Documentary Awards celebrates the best nonfiction films, programs and filmmakers of the year at the world's most prestigious event dedicated solely to the documentary genre.

For Snapchat, Mark Duplass said he and his brother have about a half - dozen concepts for scripted and unscripted shows, including comedy, drama, horror and documentary genres.

Among family profiles in the documentary genre, THE WOLFPACK is surely one of the most bizarre.

Penn Jillette, who served as MC, amusingly flubbed some card tricks, but spoke most eloquently about the evolution and importance of the documentary genre.

Even before Amy claimed the title belt as Best Documentary at 2016 Oscars ceremony, it was essential viewing for any fan of Amy Winehouse or the documentary genre at large.

With his first film, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer — a US film - maker who has spent many years in Indonesia — broke open the documentary genre, fusing it with something much richer and more disturbing than the word «nonfiction» can summon, by stepping inside the psyches of the mass murderers who assisted President Suharto's dictatorship from 1968 to 1998.

Her instincts are just as true in the documentary genre, perhaps more so, as a story that has intensely private beginnings becomes universal, entertaining and genuinely moving.

She shows feature - film chops here with Megan Leavey, skills that go beyond the documentary genre.

His poetic works stretch the boundaries of the documentary genre and the format of the film essay.

One of the most highly praised photographers of his generation, Ryan McGinley produces work that is candid, revealing, and erotically charged, drawing on and subverting the conventions of the documentary genre.

A pivotal figure in contemporary art from the early 1970s until his untimely death in 2013, Sekula continuously questioned the function of the documentary genre and the consequences of global capitalism through his critical writings, photographic installations, videos, and films.

A pivotal figure in contemporary art from the early 1970s until his untimely death in 2013, Sekula continuously questioned the function of the documentary genre and...

he work depicts a modern world, in which cinema and the documentary genre (with Fox Newsreel as media) are claimed by a pre-surrealist Dalí, a Dalí who stated along with Sebastià Gasch and Lluís Montanyà that cinema was an industry and should not be included in the fine arts: «Advances in cinema are in response to a process that is clearly and strictly industrial and anonymous.

Straddling personal and documentary genres, Graham's newest work arguably pivots into more private territory than past projects.

The exhibition sheds light on three key periods in the documentary genre: 1880s social documentary, 1960s street photography, and 1990s everyday documentary.The exhibition presents more than 100 photographs by 30 acclaimed Norwegian and international photographers, exploring how identity and political standpoints are conveyed and how portrait and documentary photography interweave to create new narratives about the times in which we live.

Exploring both the documentary genre and the work of producers, DJs, artists, musicians and composers, the film presents a montage of music samples alongside clips from conversations with four musicians — Theo Burt, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (EVOL), Mark Fell, and Lorenzo Senni.

Much of her work plays on the idea that one's understanding of the world is partial, that photography can only represent the world, and that the documentary genre is ultimately fraught with uncertainty.

Lisa Oppenheim creates experimental films and photograms (photographs made without a camera) in order to call into question the premises behind the documentary genre.

Sometimes the medium — particularly the documentary genre — still pretends.

His poetic and polyphonic films create sensual audiovisual experiences that stretch the boundaries of the documentary genre and the format of the film essay.