BRITDOC’s Luke Moody questions the power of words on screen in recent documentary journalism.
Luke Moody
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The silent return of the voice of God in documentary
Tag: Nonfiction
Patricio Guzmán on The Pearl Button
Have the strongest people always dominated everywhere? We look into Patricio Guzmán’s new film The Pearl Button, ahead of its UK release this week.
Georgia Korossi
“I’d love for these water people not to have disappeared.”
Patricio Guzmán, The Pearl Button
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.
Luke Moody
Kim Longinotto on Dreamcatcher
The master director of films on women’s rights talks to us about her picture based on Brenda Myers-Powell and the girls on the street corners of Chicago.
Georgia Korossi
Independent spirit: 21st Sheffield Doc/Fest
Continuing its reputation as the biggest international documentary film festival in UK, the 21st Sheffield Doc/Fest welcomed documentarians and activists from the public domain with a fierce independent spirit this year.
Georgia Korossi
The past is always with us. But who wants to live in an antique shop?
– Ian McShane in How We Used To Live
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Archipelago connected: 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Coinciding with the events in Thessaloniki as the European Youth Capital, the screens in the northern Greek city wrote ethics, truth and literacy on the wall.
Georgia Korossi
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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.
Luke Moody
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.
Luke Moody
“All great fiction films tend towards documentary, just as all great documentaries tend toward fiction.”
Jean-Luc Godard
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