In our fourth interview with Wiseman in as many years, he discusses his latest film Monrovia, Indiana, collaborating with his longtime cinematographer, how he …
Creative Non-Fiction
Creative Non-Fiction is often a more appropriate word for describing innovative forms in documentary filmmaking, which go beyond mere information dump. Here you'll find reviews of films that are pushing the form and interviews with non-fiction filmmakers about making non-fiction works of art.
Review: First Stripes depicts masculinity in training
First Stripes reveals how training designed to equalize recruits ends up reproducing a conservative set of norms. …
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‘It’s part of my life, not a horror film’: Jennifer Fox on The Tale
Jennifer Fox discusses The Tale, which tells of her own experience as a woman in her forties who finds herself flooded with long-buried memories of the abuse …
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Leilah Weinraub on exalting hedonism in Shakedown
Leilah Weinraub discusses waiting for the right climate to release her film on black lesbian club nights, the pitfalls of classic documentary practice, and …
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Agnès Varda’s Faces Places re-sensitizes us to the internet
In her new documentary, Faces Places, French New Wave director Agnès Varda interrogates the boundary between the internet and real life — an interest that is …
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Interview: Director Kasper Collin on I Called Him Morgan and paying tribute to a jazz great
Director Kasper Collin on creating a duet between Lee Morgan’s trumpet and his wife Helen Morgan’s voice in his new documentary I Called Him Morgan. …
All These Sleepless Nights is a mesmerizing look at youth culture in post-communist Poland
All These Sleepless Nights explores loneliness and liberation in a Poland finally free after decades of occupation and war. To access this post, you must …
Interview: Neasa Ní Chianáian and David Rane on School Life (In Loco Parentis) and school as a utopia.
Documentarians Neasa Ní Chianáian and David Rane discuss their film In Loco Parentis about a modern boarding school, Headfort School in Ireland. Outside the …
Review: Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto is witty and thought-provoking
Cate Blanchett x13 stars in Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto, a hilarious deconstruction of art manifestos and a call for original thought.To access this post, you …
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How do you edit a documentary? Gianfranco Rosi on Fire at Sea
In our second behind-the-scenes look at the film, Gianfranco Rosi talks editing Fire at Sea: how he narrows down his documentary footage and shapes it into a …
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