Documentary film

Assessment 2 Australian Film Essay Topic 2 KPB205 Approaches to Contemporary Documentary Semester 2 2015 Name: Dermot McNamara Student Number: n9161988 Due Date: 16th October, 2015 Introduction Since one of the first documentary or non-fiction narrative films in 1922, innovation has dominated this area of filmmaking becoming immeasurable just how much it has changed. Film theorists such as Bill Nichols, continue to push the boundaries of documentary filmmaking with…

Despite different genres of the documentary, first-person filmmaking still stands out as one of the most unique styles. Not all filmmakers are attracted to this genre of documentary, and every filmmaker has their own special interest in a genre. The autobiographical documentary has raised a lot of issues in concern with the growth of our ideas towards the documentary. Therefore, this paper presents the real context of autobiographical filmmaking, about the film Tarnation. In relation to this, my…

The evolutional emergence of ethnographic film is believed to have begun with the foundation of documentary film. In 1922, filmmaker Robert Flaherty released the first documentary, Nanook of the North. This narrative documentary film essentially led to generic conventions that documentaries then developed over decades (Fisher 13 September), despite its portrayal of its subjects as spectacle. Soon, film had also found its way into the anthropological world. Anthropologist Margaret Mead and her…

Armadillo, (Mentz, 2010) is a Danish documentary focusing on a small platoon of soldiers as they go to Afghanistan to complete a tour of duty. Directed by Danish filmmaker Janus Metz, and photographed by Lars Skree, the men spent six months with the troops at their base called Armadillo in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. Armadillo is a film revealing the young volunteers experiences of the highs and lows of combat. This essay will discuss the filmmaker’s techniques and the various ways in…

Reflecting on the video WIT has given me more insight as to some of the things that really happen in the health care setting such as the hospital. After watching the video I can categorizes many of the things that I observed under “ professional ethics” and “unprofessional ethics”. Professional ethic according to my interpretation where the things that where done in the movie that was patient oriented, whiles unprofessional ethics are things that where in the interested of the providers rather…

Fed Up Reflection The movie Fed Up was about what is causing obesity and how it can affect people later on in life. The movie also talks about the influences of advertisements and how obesity is a rising problem that people aren’t trying to cure. Another thing the movie did is showed kids who were obese and how they were dealing with it. I thought the movie was very interesting and it made me want to eat real, healthy food. I felt uncomfortable after I watched the movie because it made me think…

different people. According the Chapter 9 in Film: A Critical Introduction (Pramggiore), the term was first used to describe early short movies that showed everyday life, shows, performances, and parades. These upstaged acts of life were non-fiction documentaries that depicted normal activates that people would see or do daily. Therefore, the phrase can all together mean the artistic use of everyday life in film to give a meaning. Not all documentaries would go on to only show everyday life, but…

as a single screening of his film All Divided Selves. The two artists are contemporaries both living in Glasgow, but their similarities go beyond generation and nationality; they both present everyday reality in a way that makes us question our assumptions, while suggesting undertones of fear and anxiety and using motifs of Irish and Scottish folk culture. Despite these connections between the works of Boyce and Fowler, which could be explored further, Fowler’s film is an independent work that…

Throughout the list of documentaries, the two that best compare to each other in my opinion would be Nanook of the North, and Night and Frog. The reason for this is not because of just the overall themes, but the similar styles used to create each film. Nanook of the North is a silent documentary, which captures the struggles of a man name Nanook and his family in the Canadian artic. Similarly, the film Night and Frog is a short film documentary that captures the struggles, and describes the…

When Anand Patwardhan, popularly known for his socio-economic and human rights oriented films like Bombay Our City (1985), entered the realm of documentary filmmaking in 1971, he challenged the institutions dominating Indian documentary film production, distribution and censorship. Whereas when Paromita Vohra, acclaimed for her documentaries on urban life, popular culture and gender like Morality TV and Loving Jihad (2007), entered much later, in 1995 she had to deal with a completely different…