So frequently, festival documentaries imagine a foreign spectator, looking from the outside in.
CategoryCharacter-Driven
Documentary Personality vs. Biography
The symbiotic relationship between biography and personality.
Beyond the Doc-Fiction Hook
The film bills itself as doc-fiction, but the straight-doc elements are in many ways more engaging.
Documentary and Political Modernism
“The classic realist text cannot deal with the real as contradictory.” – Colin MacCabe, “Realism and the Cinema: Notes on some Brechtian theses.” (1974)