Sentences with phrase «of docufiction»

Known for his own style of docufiction, filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson combines archival, documentary, and scripted footage to depict the ordinary realities of working - class African Americans, especially in the Midwest where he resides.

Restored in 2K with native sounds and traditional songs that Flahertys daughter recorded over a half - century after they shot it, Monica Flaherty's Moana with Sound is a beautiful work of docufiction and an important piece of film history.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

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Her last projects include The Road Movie, a docufiction film that has been commisioned and represented by XII Baltic triennial in 2015, «more not yet» — an ongoing series of exhibition documentaries and the new film «A Desire For Things To Work» that maps the voices of the phone sex workers in Amsterdam and which was presented in the 22nd Vilnius film festival in 2017.