BRITDOC's Luke Moody questions the power of words on screen in recent documentary journalism. Long and short form documentary film, informed by deep journalism, is encountering a formal challenge. As filmmakers and editors strive to make poetry of complex information, they increasingly find creative anchoring in journalism’s most comfortable medium: the written word. Looking… Continue reading The silent return of the voice of God in documentary
Author: Luke Moody
Born and bred in the Sheffield region, Luke Moody commissioned international award-winning feature documentaries across the Channel 4, Puma, Bertha BRITDOC and Pulse BRITDOC film funds for six years as Head of Film at BRITDOC Foundation. He also managed UK impact distribution campaigns for Laura Poitras’ Academy Award-winning CITIZENFOUR and Richard Rowley’s Academy Award-nominated Dirty Wars, including commissioning new artworks from Deutsche Börsche prize-winning Trevor Paglen and recent Serpentine digital commission artist James Bridle. Recently he co-founded and curated digital platform Something Real and documentary festival FRAMES of REPRESENTATION at ICA, London. Since 2016 Luke is Director of Film Programming for Sheffield Doc/Fest and All Year programme.
Making it real together
Revealing creative dialogues in nonfiction films, a playful act between filmmaker and subject as early as 1950, are evidence that documentary filmmaking is the art of collaborative conceit. Last June Robert Greene’s Actress and Måns Månsson’s Stranded in Canton had their UK premieres at London’s blossoming Open City Documentary Festival. Both films use models… Continue reading Making it real together
Animal features: new nature documentary
As Leviathan hits London cinemas this month, Luke Moody compiles a list of animal features and talks about the endoscopic camera eye in the new nature documentary. I’ve never worked a wave beaten shift on a night time fishing trawler in the North Atlantic. I will never become a motor-powered boat nor squirm like… Continue reading Animal features: new nature documentary
Act normal: hybrid tendencies in documentary film
On the release of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing in UK cinemas, some excitement is emerging about the possibilities of new hybrid forms of documentary. "All great fiction films tend towards documentary, just as all great documentaries tend toward fiction.” Jean-Luc Godard Aside from this admiration, the film has provoked reactions of both… Continue reading Act normal: hybrid tendencies in documentary film
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