Cinema Verite ppt
Transcript of Cinema Verite ppt
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A footnote to start this week• The Academy Awards• The Oscar goes to …• Documentary feature Taxi to the Dark Side • by Australian film maker Eva Orner• Beat out Michael Moore’s Sicko
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Academy Awards• Taxi … examines torture of prisoners in
Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay• Documentary short• Freeheld• By Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth• A film about an American police officer dying
of cancer and wanting to leave her pension to her domestic partner
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Academy Award
• Documentary short for last year• 2007• Ruby Yang• The Blood of Yingzhou District• Will show film later in this semester• Now on to the main lecture
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Last Week• Elements of Style• Some original film makers• Ken Burns• Errol Morris• Nick Broomfield • Ross McElwee • The debt to Cinema Verite’ pioneers
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This Week• Elements of Style in Documentary Film• Cinema Verite’• Direct Cinema• Jean Rouch• The Maysles Brothers• Frederick Wiseman
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This Week• Last lecture before spring break or
reading week• During reading week do 2nd critique• Compare and contrast• Focus on style or treatment• Same or similar subject matter • Examine classic documentary films
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Critique 2 due March 14• Compare contrast examples• Night and Fog (Resnais) vs Sorrow &
the Pity (Ophuls)• The Thin Blue Line (Morris) vs Murder
on a Sunday Morning (de Lestrade) • Note: I will e-mail you in the next five
days results of your 1st essay
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Cinema Verite / Direct Cinema
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Cinema Verite• A fancy French term• “Truth” in documentary films• Central point of the debate about genre• Can you capture truth on camera?• Does the camera affect the subject of a
film• How much structure should a film have• How much intervention by the filmmaker
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Cinema Verite or Direct Cinema
• Some features of this style of film• Direct cinema does not usually employ interviews• No narration• Some say: OK to direct film subjects: • To impose, intervene in the pursuit of truth• Others argue:• The camera is meant simply to observe• No intervention in the shooting of the film• Arrangement in the editing process
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Cinema Verite• From the mid 1950’s onward • First in film /then video tape• Cameras became smaller • Less obtrusive• More flexibility for the documentary film
maker• Allowing Direct Cinema to develop
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Influential CV Filmmakers• Jean Rouch (1917-2004) engineer Africa, journalist with AFP• Chronique d'un été (Chronicle of a
Summer) 1961• Made with French Canadian
cameraman Michel Brault• Note one powerful scene Marceline • Staged ? -- Q. of Truth? [1 Wintonick 3724-4640 9min]
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Albert Maysles (1926 - )• Since 1955 has directed/produced more
than 40 documentaries• The Salesman (1969)• Grey Gardens – (1976 and updated in
2006 on DVD)• Gimme Shelter (1970)
• http://www.mayslesfilms.com/
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Albert Maysles • Book: Liz Stubbs – Documentary Filmmakers
Speak (2002)• Albert Maysles interview chapter 2 “The Father of Direct Cinema”• Grey Gardens (1976) [show excerpt]
• The Salesman (1969)• Strong, unusual, sad, characters• “uncontrolled cinema”• Albert Maysles speaks of film [Wintonick 113=11737]
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Frederick Wiseman (1930 - )One critic said• “Frederick Wiseman is arguably the most
important American documentary filmmaker of the past three decades. A law professor turned filmmaker in 1967, Wiseman, in his most dramatically powerful documentaries, chronicles the exercise of power in American society by focusing on the everyday life.”
• http://www.zipporah.com/
• An argumentative, self promoter & uncompromising film maker
• [Wintonick 11738 – 12104 or start at 77 min 40 secs]
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Frederick Wiseman• Wiseman films: (more than 40)• Institutional subjects• Titicut Follies (1967)• High School (1968) *• High School II (1994) [excrpt]
• Near Death (1989) *• [dvd interview 252-1218]
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Influential Films & Filmmakers• In Hong Kong and China, Wiseman
has influenced film makers like Tammy Cheung.
• Secondary School (2002) • Also Zhou Hao, Senior Year (2005)• Also Chen Weijun Please Vote For MeAll derivative school films - CV or DC style
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Next• Mid term break• Work on 2nd film critique • 2 films – compare and contrast• Due March 14th
• On March 14th – Chinese films Part 1• Films about China• Films by Independent Chinese film
makers – - guest lecturers