Yanillys Perez’ feature debut, which won the TIFF 16 Dropbox Award for the Discovery Section, is a work of creative nonfiction. Perez mixes magic realist voiceover with a social realist approach to its optimistic, clear-eyed, and poetic subject: Jeffrey, a charming and driven 12-year-old boy who dreams of becoming a famous reggaeton & dembow singer.
[Read more…] about Yanillys Perez’ TIFF16 Dropbox Award Winner JeffreyCreative 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.
In Women He’s Undressed, Designer Orry-Kelly finally gets his moment in the sun, and boy is he fabulous!
Gillian Armstrong’s new documentary, Women He’s Undressed, resurrects the witty and cheeky Orry-Kelly to tell his life story and illuminate the art behind his historic costume designs.
[Read more…] about In Women He’s Undressed, Designer Orry-Kelly finally gets his moment in the sun, and boy is he fabulous!Writer-Director Jenni Olson on her film essay, The Royal Road
Gillie Collins talks to Jenni Olson about her 16mm film essay, The Royal Road, a meandering story about unrequited love told through the linear progression of California’s El Camino road.
[Read more…] about Writer-Director Jenni Olson on her film essay, The Royal RoadChantal Akerman’s final film No Home Movie is a heartbreaking personal essay
Alex Heeney reviews Chantal Akerman’s moving cinematic essay No Home Movie: a tribute to her mother, a holocaust survivor, and a subtle exploration of Jewish “suitcase-ready” culture.
[Read more…] about Chantal Akerman’s final film No Home Movie is a heartbreaking personal essayArabian Nights is an intoxicating, maddening mosaic of recession-era Portugal
Brandon Nowalk reviews Arabian Nights, which he describes as the blind men’s elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, proletarian and prohibitive. It’s an enormous six-hour movie split into three volumes, made up mostly of separate smaller stories. The film is available on VOD, Fandor, and Blu Ray.
[Read more…] about Arabian Nights is an intoxicating, maddening mosaic of recession-era PortugalJoshua Oppenheimer discusses his haunted, ‘magical realist’ doc The Look of Silence
Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his collaboration with Adi Rukun, the importance of empathy, and the magical realist landscape and soundscape of his Oscar-nominated documentary The Look of Silence. This is an excerpt from the ebook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1.
To read the full interview, purchase a copy of the ebook here.
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