Poetic – Film Festival Documentary

The Burden of Words

When the spoken exposition takes the upper hand.

What does it mean for a documentary to be humanist?

Thinking about how prologues can function differently.

More hybridization of the poetic and essay film genres.

The favorite tool of popular-poetic documentery

Melancholy and the essay film form.

Thinking about how popular documentary can adapt to the festival film – or vice versa.

The role of ambiguity in the festival documentary.

Interrogating the idea of the quirkumentary

When structure is made explicit.

The concurrence of multiple documentary “dramas”

The expository mode makes a surprise reappearance.

When the personification of the camera gets wedded to documentary theme.

Much of the drama of poetic documentary comes in how a familiar stylistic approach might be harnassed unpredicatbly.

Turning the poetic mode against expectations.