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The Surprising-and Welcome-Comeback of Cinema Verite

Sharon Hayes's framed cinéma vérité presents visible, unedited conversations that invite spectators into communal encounter, redefining observational video by embracing its acknowledged limits.

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fromwww.theguardian.com

2 months ago

The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog review profound, or just a prank?

Pursuing truth matters more than possessing facts; ecstatic, imaginative understanding reveals deeper realities than bare, accountant's truth.

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fromwww.theguardian.com

2 months ago

In Whose Name? review Kanye's descent makes for grimly compelling watch

A cinéma vérité portrait shows Ye's volatile, unmedicated behavior, revealing bipolar disclosure, refusal of dissent, and extensive unseen footage without contextual commentary.

fromFilmmaker Magazine

3 months ago

In Memoriam, An Interview with the Late Documentary Filmmaker Joel DeMott and her partner, Jeff Kreines

In my recent Filmmaker conversation with Julia Loktev about the making of her monumental documentary, My Undesirable Friends, I cited the work of the late documentary filmmaker Joel DeMott, because I believe there is a straight line between DeMott's approach in the late 1970s to shooting vérité documentary using shoulder-mounted 16mm cameras and Loktev's latter-day methods using iPhones. DeMott, who died in June, has been eulogized in obits in Documentary and The New York Times,

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The Surprising-and Welcome-Comeback of Cinema Verite

The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog review profound, or just a prank?

In Whose Name? review Kanye's descent makes for grimly compelling watch

In Memoriam, An Interview with the Late Documentary Filmmaker Joel DeMott and her partner, Jeff Kreines

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