Fifteen critics and filmmakers weigh in on the films that changed how they thought about documentary in this creative nonfiction survey.
Documentary
Explore the innovative and artistic strategies documentarians use to narrativize nonfiction stories on screen.
What do you call your nonfiction film?
Six filmmakers, from Penny Lane to Kirsten Johnson, weigh in on the question, what do you call your nonfiction film?
Reviews: The Hidden Life of Trees and The Loneliest Whale
Two straightforward nature docs drop you into worlds unseen: travel to forests around the world in The Hidden Life of Trees and underwater in the Pacific Ocean in The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52.
Fathom: a documentary about humpback whales’ songs
Drew Xanthopoulos’s documentary Fathom follows two marine ecologists studying humpback whale songs on their month-long field research.
The case for Bo Burnham: Inside as creative nonfiction
Bo Burnham: Inside was marketed as a comedy special, but what happens when you view it through the lens of creative nonfiction?
What is creative nonfiction?
What is creative nonfiction? Why don’t we just stick with the word documentary? Through quotes from Penny Lane, Tabitha Jackson, and more, we explain what the term means to us.