Michal Marczak's All These Sleepless Nights explores loneliness and liberation in a Poland finally free after decades of occupation and war. This article was …
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.
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. …
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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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