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...