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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.

Alex Heeney / October 27, 2018

Frederick Wiseman on Monrovia, Indiana: ‘I learned more about how to make a film by editing myself than any other way.’

In our fourth interview with Frederick Wiseman in as many years, he discusses his latest film, Monrovia, Indiana, collaborating with his longtime cinematographer, how he approaches theatre vs documentary film, and the shot he thinks ‘looked cool’.

First Stripes

Brett Pardy / June 30, 2018

Review: First Stripes depicts masculinity in training

First Stripes reveals how training designed to equalize recruits ends up reproducing a conservative set of norms.

Elena Lazic / June 6, 2018

‘It’s part of my life, not a horror film’: Jennifer Fox on The Tale

We interview Jennifer Fox about 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 she suffered as a child. This interview was conducted at the Sundance London Film Festival.

Leilah Weinraub, Shakedown, Berlinale 18

Elena Lazic / February 22, 2018

Leilah Weinraub on exalting hedonism in Shakedown

Leilah Weinraub discusses Shakedown, waiting for the right climate to release her film on black lesbian club nights, the pitfalls of classic documentary practice, and trusting your audience.

Agnès Varda, Faces Places, JR

Gillie Collins / February 5, 2018

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 reflected in Varda’s personal Instagram.

I Called Him Morgan, Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Kasper Collin.

Alex Heeney / April 7, 2017

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.

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