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Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen. The Last Straw (2008 film) Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg. Living on the Edge (film) Louder Than a Bomb (film) Luther Metke at 94.
Documentary mode. Documentary mode is a conceptual scheme developed by American documentary theorist Bill Nichols that seeks to distinguish particular traits and conventions of various documentary film styles. Nichols identifies six different documentary 'modes' in his schema: poetic, expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, and ...
Documentary film. A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record ". [1] Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains ...
Poetry of Witness is a 2015 documentary film directed by Billy Tooma and Anthony Cirilo about the lives of six contemporary poets who have lived through, and survived, extremities such as war, torture, exile, and repression, using poetry to preserve their memories. [1] It debuted October 16, 2015 at the Buffalo International Film Festival.
Poetic realism was a film movement in France of the 1930s. More a tendency than a movement, poetic realism is not strongly unified like Soviet montage or French Impressionism but were individuals who created this lyrical style. Its leading filmmakers were Pierre Chenal, Jean Vigo, Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carné, and, perhaps the movement's most ...
The film-poem (also called the poetic avant-garde film, verse-film or verse-documentary or film poem without the hyphen) [1] is a label first applied to American avant-garde films released after World War II. [2] During this time, the relationship between film and poetry was debated. James Peterson in Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order said, "In ...
8, a play by Dustin Lance Black, is an example that uses interviews and courtroom transcripts in order to reenact the legal argument and witness testimony of the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case. Major examples of documentary theatre Early 20th-century. One-Third of a Nation (1938) Mid 20th-century. The Investigation (1965)
Tongues Untied is a 1989 American experimental documentary film directed by Marlon T. Riggs, and featuring Riggs, Essex Hemphill and Brian Freeman. [1] The film seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference." In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United ...