Essay film – Film Festival Documentary

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By : ccagle November 19, 2020

The Burden of Words

When the spoken exposition takes the upper hand.

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By : ccagle January 19, 2020November 25, 2019

Nontheatrical Film

The essay film’s distinct relation to the archive.

By : ccagle January 12, 2020November 19, 2019

Character and Author

Inserting the filmmaker into the character-driven film.

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By : ccagle November 26, 2019November 19, 2019

Landscape as Problem

Why don’t more documentaries use landscape like fiction films?

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By : ccagle November 19, 2019November 19, 2019

Cine-Roman

Reviving the cine-roman format.

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By : ccagle November 4, 2019

Essay Film as Meta-History

More hybridization of the poetic and essay film genres.

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By : ccagle October 31, 2019

Time Lapse

The favorite tool of popular-poetic documentery

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By : ccagle October 18, 2019

The Sociology of Institutions

Melancholy and the essay film form.

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By : ccagle April 20, 2019April 23, 2019

Contrapuntal Form

The concurrence of multiple documentary “dramas”

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By : ccagle May 18, 2017April 24, 2019

Making the Case for Socially Conscious Doc

A tale of two reading formations.

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By : ccagle October 20, 2016May 17, 2017

When Doc-Fiction meets the Essay Film

The importance of the “documentary” label.

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By : ccagle May 30, 2015May 17, 2017

The Radicality of the New Archival Doc

When the historical recollective documentary film takes on elements of the essay film – or vice versa.