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Documentary Masters, Seventh Row eBook

In their own words: Documentary masters ebook

$24.99

If you want to understand, soup to nuts, how documentaries come to life, this book is for you. You’ll get specific insights into the craft and philosophy of filmmaking from a wide range of critically acclaimed filmmakers — and learn things about filmmaking that you haven’t seen written down elsewhere. 
Formats available: ePub and PDF.

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Inside, Frederick Wiseman breaks down his editing process; Alanis Obomsawin re-imagines documentary as a means of listening; and Joshua Oppenheimer discusses the use of magical realism in processing “unresolved trauma.” Over and over, we drop you into the minds of some of today’s most influential documentarians, and, with our eBook exclusive foreward, we equip you to put these perspectives in conversation and share in their wisdom. This ebook is an insightful, fun, beautiful, revelatory, and exceptionally well-written treasure trove of interviews with some of the best documentary filmmakers working today. Find out more here.

Table of Contents

  • Editor’s Note
  • Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his haunted, ‘magical realist’ doc The Look of Silence
  • Hubert Sauper talks We Come As Friends 
  • Sophie Fiennes on Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami and performativity
  • FREDERICK WISEMAN DOSSIER
    • Wiseman on National Gallery
    • Wiseman talks making In Jackson Heights
    • ‘Cutting at right angles’: Frederick Wiseman on Ex Libris: New York Public Library
  • GIANFRANCO ROSI DOSSIER
    • Rosi on his Berlinale winner Fire at Sea
    • How do you edit a documentary? Rosi on Fire at Sea 
    • Two opposing sensibilities: documentarians Gianfranco Rosi and Frederick Wiseman 
  • Steve James talks ABACUS: Small Enough to Jail
  • Penny Lane on NUTS!: a gullible audience
  • Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker on Unlocking the Cage
  • ‘It was exciting to see the possibilities that should be there for all’: Alanis Obomsawin on Our People Will Be Healed
ISBN: 978-1-7752354-6-0 (PDF)
ISBN: 978-1-7752354-7-7 (ePub)

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