Tagged documentary

“If you like outrageous cinema, you live and breathe to wait for those weird moments that happen every once in a while in genre cinema, where it’s like, you can’t believe you’re seeing what you’re seeing.” - Q...

Fig 1. Sarah Polley filming with a Super 8 camera in Stories We Tell Near the beginning of Sarah Polley’s newest film, Stories We Tell (2012), an autobiographical documentary about her family and her life h...

Frederick Wiseman’s second documentary, High School (1968), was at the time of its release an unprecedented glimpse into America’s public education system. Throughout his career, Wiseman has bristled at the ter...

An elderly Cajun recalls his life spent in the Louisiana bayous for decades as he has struggled to survive on the meager income of a crabber and oysterman. He breaks down, confessing, “It’s my whole life; it’s ...

The case is against the company Fake. …When I came out , I asked: “What is the economic problem?” They said: “This has nothing to do with you, it’s about Fake Company.” But the day before I was released they as...

Who is the author of a documentary film? This was just one question that arose repeatedly during the week of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. I’ll give it its full English name just that on...

Surreal, sickening and profoundly disturbing – The Act of Killing (2012) may not be easy to watch, but it has turned the documentary form on its head. The film explodes documentary conventions firstly by examin...

In Ten on Ten, a 2004 documentary featuring ten short scenes in which Abbas Kiarostami speaks in a car on his work in filming 2001’s Ten, itself a ten part movie featuring short video sequences shot entirely in...

“Swimming”, he told her. “He wants to have a swim.” “Sailing? There’s a race on Saturday.” “I didn’t ask him. I should think he sails. He’s the sort of man who would.” She took a drink of beer. “We could tak...

In the early eighties, The Sunnyboys were the greatest band on the planet… - Stuart Coupe, Music Journalist (interviewed in The Sunnyboy) Kaye Harrison’s new documentary The Sunnyboy (2013) opens with the d...

June 2013: It’s not often that you find yourself in another world, a parallel universe that’s real, has sentient beings passing through it and you quietly observing. But it’s happening to me more and more. T...

With Ferocious Reality, Eric Ames makes a valuable contribution to the literature on documentary, offering a thoughtful and philosophically adept analytical approach and elucidating it with clarity and restrain...

Located in the second largest city of Greece, the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival was founded 15 years ago by its current director Dimitri Eipides, with the aim of providing Greek audiences with an alternativ...

The image of the Olympian mountain – the towering intermediary between the physical and spiritual realms – has long loomed as an icon and motif in Germanic culture. Sub-heavenly summits have served as perches o...

In the establishing shot of Werner Herzog’s Glocken aus der Tiefe: Glaube und Aberglaube in Rußland (Bells From the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia, 1993), two people are seen to be dragging themselves o...

“I want to talk about epic poetry.” I still remember the shock when Scott Millwood opened a documentary masterclass in the bowels of the Bondi Pavilion with these words back in 2004. I was covering the class fo...

In one of the many engaging panel discussions on the “documentary arts”, as one filmmaker called them, at the 10th edition of Copenhagen’s international documentary festival, lead programmer Mads Mikkelsen host...

Urgency was the key word for the 10th anniversary of DocLisboa. The urgency of the state of the world around us; the urgency of finding new ways to translate it into moving images; the urgency of showing people...

"The films and tapes were not important in themselves. It was the process and the ideas". George Stoney Executive Producer, Challenge for Change/ Societe Nouvelle, 1968 – 70.   In 1967 the National Film Board ...

Insightful analysis of Basil Wright’s 1934 documentary that goes beyond the standard readings of the film in respect to its colonial discourse.

“You bump into experiences, films, each other, opinions...on the internet you’re always searching for something, but during a festival you’re not looking – you’re finding.” – Martijn te Pas, IDFA Program Coord...

Over the course of nine years, DocLisboa has grown in stature into one of the key European shop windows of modern non-fiction film. Lisbon's documentary film festival has become a yearly rendezvous, an opportun...

Abigail Loxham discusses the documentary work of José Luis Guerín, Albert Solé and Carla Subirana in the light of Catalan history.

Author Jiwei Xiao analyses the aesthetics and the theme of memory that underpin the films of Jia Zhangke, the foremost contemporary Chinese director of his generation.

Earlier this year, the Korean American Film Festival in New York held a retrospective of Kim-Gibson’s work. In this interview she discusses politics, art and the documentary form.

In the days of early film production “scenics” or “gazettes” were seminal in establishing urban film-going as “big business”. Most popular between 1903 and 1912, they coincided with the development of city film...

It’s hard to be objective about Boston as a movie town. I’ve lived in (relative) close proximity to the small city for most of my life, and when I found myself completely enamoured with cinema in all of its for...

Post-punk’s discursive watchword was “demystification”: unpack the “meaning behind the moaning” (as Public Image Ltd’s John Lydon would sing in “Careering”), bypass the industrial machinations of the music ...

  São Paulo 25 March – 5 April 2009 Rio de Janeiro 26 March – 5 April 2009 Brasília 14-26 April 2009 A poster advertising the It’s All True Documentary Festival, held 25 March-5 April in São Paulo ...

Keith Beattie’s Documentary Display: Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video is an extremely valuable and refreshing contribution to the burgeoning field of documentary film studies. Beattie’s book takes as its fo...

The Back of Beyond (1954 Australia 66 mins) Prod Co: Shell Film Unit Prod, Dir, Ed: John Heyer Scr: John Heyer, Janet Heyer, Roland Robinson Voiceover Scr: Douglas Stewart, John Heyer Phot: Ross Wood Mus...

Richard Armstrong takes a look at this historically significant DVD compilation from the British Film Institute.