Since Robert Flaherty\u27s landmark film Nanook of the North (1922) arguments have raged over whether or not film records of people and traditions can ever be authentic. And yet never before has a single volume combined documentary, ethnographic, and folkloristic filmmaking to explore this controversy. What happens when we turn the camera on ourselves? This question has long plagued documentary filmmakers concerned with issues of reflexivity, subject participation, and self-consciousness. Documenting Ourselves includes interviews with filmmakers Les Blank, Pat Ferrero, Jorge Preloran, Bill Ferris, and others, who discuss the ways their own productions and subjects have influenced them. Sharon Sherman examines the history of documentary fi...
The aim of this article is to study the use of home movies in films made with an autobiographical ap...
"Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never be...
Professional project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of M...
The personal documentary and the biographical film, at their very best, reflect both a desire to dis...
Documentary filmmaking has evolved through its inceptions in 1922’s Nanook of the North to 2018’s Ic...
Interest in the conjunctions of film and folklore is stronger and more diverse than ever. Documentar...
This thesis explores the relationship between cinematic techniques and forms of knowledge in the non...
The official URL links to the 4 videos associated with this thesis: Separate 4, A view of the boats ...
Documentaries represent issues and aspects of the socio-historical world. They do so through a selec...
This course explores the challenge of truth-telling in documentary film and video. A prevailing bel...
My Mother's Village is a personal documentary response to The Sri Lanka Series (1980), a series of e...
In this article I argue that using past films as found footage has benefited the documentary filmmak...
The review of the history and practice of first-person filmmaking and autobiographical documentary,...
This article analyses four recent documentaries that all involve the filmmaker handing multiple came...
This study investigates the role of Native American aesthetic practices, as documented and expressed...
The aim of this article is to study the use of home movies in films made with an autobiographical ap...
"Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never be...
Professional project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of M...
The personal documentary and the biographical film, at their very best, reflect both a desire to dis...
Documentary filmmaking has evolved through its inceptions in 1922’s Nanook of the North to 2018’s Ic...
Interest in the conjunctions of film and folklore is stronger and more diverse than ever. Documentar...
This thesis explores the relationship between cinematic techniques and forms of knowledge in the non...
The official URL links to the 4 videos associated with this thesis: Separate 4, A view of the boats ...
Documentaries represent issues and aspects of the socio-historical world. They do so through a selec...
This course explores the challenge of truth-telling in documentary film and video. A prevailing bel...
My Mother's Village is a personal documentary response to The Sri Lanka Series (1980), a series of e...
In this article I argue that using past films as found footage has benefited the documentary filmmak...
The review of the history and practice of first-person filmmaking and autobiographical documentary,...
This article analyses four recent documentaries that all involve the filmmaker handing multiple came...
This study investigates the role of Native American aesthetic practices, as documented and expressed...
The aim of this article is to study the use of home movies in films made with an autobiographical ap...
"Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never be...
Professional project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of M...