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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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: 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
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 …
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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