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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.

All These Sleepless Nights, Michał Marczak, Sleepless Nights

Noemi Berkowitz / April 3, 2017

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.

In Loco Parentis, Neasa Ní Chianáian, David Rane

Alex Heeney / March 16, 2017

Interview: Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane on School Life

Directors Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane discuss their documentary film In Loco Parentis about a modern boarding school, Headfort School in Ireland. Neasa Ní Chianáin has continued to explore innovative pedagogy on film with her documentary Young Plato.

Manifesto, Julian Rosefeldt, Cate Blanchett

Alex Heeney / February 1, 2017

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.

Fire at Sea, Fuocoammare, Gianfranco Rosi

Alex Heeney / October 25, 2016

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 narrative in the editing room.

Fire at Sea, Fuocoammare, Gianfranco Rosi

Alex Heeney / October 24, 2016

Gianfranco Rosi on his Berlinale winner Fire at Sea

Gianfranco Rosi discusses the making of Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare): finding his protagonist, developing the film’s aesthetic, creating the sound mix, and discovering the film’s title.

13th, Ava DuVernay

Alex Heeney / October 20, 2016

Ava DuVernay’s 13th is an innovative spin on the talking head doc

Employing key but subtle twists on the convention talking head documentary, Ava DuVernay’s 13th explains how slavery in the U.S. was never really abolished without ever resorting to preaching.

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