While borrowing too much from the Ken Burns
school of documentary filmmaking (admittedly it does open it up a little but the music is definitely overkill), the documentary does an adequate job of linking their case to today via the immigrant issue and the war on terror.
«Cameraperson «The recently deceased Jacques Rivette famously said that all films are documentaries of their own making, but Kirsten Johnson, a long standing filmmaker and non-fiction cinematographer, has taken that concept to its logical extreme and has made a documentary that is both about her own life and about the very
nature of documentary filmmaking.
With his late brother David, Maysles pioneered a house
style of documentary filmmaking that took fly - on - the - wall observation to an often troublesome extreme.
However, Tallgrass Film AssociationCreative Director, Lela Meadow - Conner noted that every year, many of the Tallgrass Film Festival's timely and challenging films have been made by women, particularly in the
realm of documentary filmmaking.
«The Music of Strangers represented what I call The
Avengers of documentary filmmaking teams,»» said The Orchard EVP Paul Davidson whose company saw the film in Toronto, picking up worldwide rights.
I've never seen a year where my two favourite films (at this time) are documentaries, let alone ones that push the
capabilities of documentary filmmaking and cinema itself into new directions.
While it may be the case that the film's interest in the nuts and
bolts of documentary filmmaking and financing may lose some, he keeps everything moving at a breezy, relaxed pace and punches it all up with rat - a-tat dialogue.
Nick Fraser on the current
state of documentary filmmaking • Mint Productions on the Bertie documentary series • Pitching training event at the STF doc festival • Interview with documentary filmmaker Liz Mermin • Roundtable: The future of creative documentary • Pat Collins interview • Steve McQueen on Hunger • Gideon Koppel interview on Sleep Furiously • Loopline Film's doc courses • A doctor for docs • Nino Troppiano on Chippers
But in 2013 I fell in love with docs, there were so many I saw that blew me away, that showed me the
power of documentary filmmaking and the potential it has to be as exhilarating and enlightening as any narrative feature.
In 1976, scholar Calvin Pryluck struggled with the ethics of documentary film ‐ making in an article titled: Ultimately, We Are All Outsiders: The
Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking.»
Bali Governor Made Magnus Pastiche of Bali met in Parliament yesterday (27/4) expressly states that the film director Amity Vermin Cowboys in Paradise which is currently very fidgety in bali, never asking
permission of documentary filmmaking to the local government.
The film is a City Symphony film; a predominately silent era
genre of documentary filmmaking that was both structured by and composed of images of everyday life in different urban centers.
IT IS THE SHEER VERSATILITY and multiplicity of global media — the circulatory flux of images, their supple and instantaneous distribution networks — that render the
task of documentary filmmaking today more fraught than ever.
I think one of the stranger moments in the
history of documentary filmmaking — if not filmmaking generally — is from a 1974 BBC documentary called Cracked Actor: A Film About David Bowie.
The Infinite Mix will also bring together ambitious works by Martin Creed, Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster, Cameron Jamie, Elizabeth Price and Ugo Rondinone that mix
conventions of documentary filmmaking with highly inventive approaches to layering images and sounds.
Claire Aguilar is the director of programming and industry engagement at Sheffield Doc / Fest, an international film festival that celebrates the art and
business of documentary filmmaking.
DeGennaro, director and founder of Unlocking Silent Histories, describes the experience of introducing indigenous youth in Guatemala to the
art of documentary filmmaking and watching them find their voices.
Although Life Itself is not exactly groundbreaking in
terms of documentary filmmaking, it serves as a superb tribute that will leave Roger Ebert fans delighted and inspired.
As noted by Prosper Hillairet and Sandy Flitterman - Lewis in Surimpressions, Dulac's The Seashell and the Clergyman already includes aspects of the
kind of documentary filmmaking that she would dedicate herself to making in the 1930s for Gaumont.
It was on this path, a few years into her 26 - year stint working for Newsday as a writer and art critic and her other job of writing television essays for Public Television's «The MacNeil / Lehrer Report» that she met the artist Louise Bourgeois and then found her way into the
world of documentary filmmaking.
Guest blogger Donna DeGennaro, director and founder of Unlocking Silent Histories, describes the experience of introducing indigenous youth in Guatemala to the art
of documentary filmmaking and watching them find their voices.