Sentences with phrase «fictional film documentary»

The second video, entitled The white ghosts sailed in, is a fictional film documentary allegedly made in 1788 by Australian Indigenous people depicting Sydney Harbor with a film camera prototype discarded by Captain Cook.

Not exact matches

This one will be hard to stomach if you actually watch it, but as one of the first ever «found - footage» horror movies, about a fictional documentary crew shooting a film in the Amazon, it has been hugely influential.

The film, a fusion of documentary and drama directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, is a fictional re-creation of the 20,000 th day of Mr. Cave's life, when he started recording his 2013 album, «Push the Sky Away.»

It won two jury awards at Sundance, and arguably an appreciation for Nick Cave the artist would influence any viewer's perception of 20,000 Days On Earth, but what really affects ones viewing of this film is entering into it and viewing it as a documentary disguised as a fictional film, or a fictional film disguised as a documentary.

Film director Adam Rifkin spoofs Hollywood's star machine in concocting this fictional «mockumentary» about a director (Rifkin playing himself) who wants to make a documentary film about a rising young star.

They are films that are either documentaries or real life dramas that take the basic true elements of a story and put it in a fictional setting.

Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, this film is a «docu - drama» hybrid, meaning it's a fictional feature film but uses real documentary elements.

The scenario is fictional, but the sex scenes can be construed as documentary in nature, to almost the same extent as the nine concerts that punctuate the film and provide it with its title.

Jonathan Demme will probably be forever known as the guy who directed The Silence of the Lambs (1991), though his filmography is now far heavier with documentaries and music films than with fictional horrors.

The best Iranian film in years, invisible in its own country save for a series of screenings at the latest Fajr Film Festival, a sum of Banietemad's work (both fictional and documentary): characters from some of her earlier films meet and have complex, intimate interactions over the landscape of contemporary Tehran.

This is the second, more serious problem with the film: it's fictional status means the filmmakers could have done anything they wanted to, and this is what they chose to film — a fabricated and unflattering characterization of a real person disguised as a documentary about the making of her film.

In fact, the moment recalls Godard's famous dictum that every fictional film is a documentary of its actors.

Here's another icon: punk - rock godfather Iggy Pop, who gets the documentary treatment from Jim Jarmusch (who's also at Cannes with his fictional feature film «Paterson»).

The reason why it hasn't is simple: Emmet is a completely fictional character, and the documentary - style talking head introductions to the film's individual vignettes (by jazz historians and enthusiasts, including Allen himself) go a long way in convincing the audience of the film's truth.

This is a fictional film rather than a documentary on several of the movie theater shootings that occurred over the past few years.

[To Jolie] In a way like your film too, revealing a culture and an environment that has a pretty heightened degree of authenticity, meaning the documentary but at the same time, there are composite characters and there are fictional elements.

This film could almost be a fictional documentary, where we try and fail to get into the head of this violent, but decent human being.

Andersen opens the film with an idea: if people can appreciate documentaries for their fictional qualities, why can't the opposite be true?

Typically for Zaatari the Stockholm exhibition involves found photographic archives, multimedia installations, and film and video, both documentary and fictional (and works that sit somewhere between the two).

Ataman's film Journey to the Moon is especially engaging in the way it crafts a fictional story interwoven with a documentary style interview of Turkish scholars.

As many commentators have noted, this evolution in Chang's artistic practice began around the time of her 2005 film, Shangri - La, which uses documentary and Surrealistic techniques to recreate the eponymous fictional town.

A mixture of fictional and documentary material, this expressionistic film focused on the paradox of assimilation while trying to hold on to one's cultural perspective.

This captivating, three - channel video installation encompasses fictional narrative, natural history documentary, and film essay, referencing Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) and Heathcote Williams's poem Whale Nation (1988), among others.

He made a documentary of the mission, and hired two screenwriters to follow him as he did it, so they could write a fictional version of the making of the documentary while themselves factoring into the documentary — and then, eventually, he would film the screenplay they come up with.

For the documentary, which considers personal identity, the individual in society, and how we construct our social selves, Wearing placed an advertisement in newspapers throughout Newcastle and London, asking readers if they would like to act in a film either as themselves or cast as a fictional character.

Indeed this new film is set against a fictional visit by two American anthropologists to Dún Chaoin, mirroring the premise of Hockings and McCarty's 1968 documentary.

By September, UTA Fine Arts had revealed two film projects, both of them documentaries: Maura Axelrod's study of the prankster - sculptor Maurizio Cattelan, and an absurdist quest for a quite possibly fictional sculpture by Ed Ruscha, made by Pierre Bismuth, a French conceptual artist best known for co-writing the Oscar - winning screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

For more on the two very different Arctic denizens, you might click back to my piece on Arctic Tale, a film on the two species combining amazing documentary footage and a fictional fable.]