At least a thousand other figures surrounded me. Some of these figures vibrated, some of them screeched, some of them were so silent that they appeared louder than anyone else nearby. People who I’ve never seen before. People who looked like the characters in my dreams. Flashes of facial profiles…

The idea that museums are not neutral spaces, in terms of both evolving roles within such buildings themselves, as well as the debate around decolonizing galleries, are two notions that should be explored and continued to be in the discourse of the contemporary art world. How else might we evolve…

Upon completing my viewings of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, and pondering the statement stemming from the director’s critics that label him as a propagandist filmmaker, I have to say I had never connected Michael Moore’s films to propaganda previous to reading these claims. Although I can…

The direct cinema style of Hoop Dreams uses the camera to provoke and reveal truth by taking aspects of cinema verité and aspects of traditional documentaries and blending the two techniques together to create a middleground as far as capturing reality. The film consists of many cinema verité type shots…

The choice in filmmaking technique in which Big and Little Edie Beale’s stories were told through in Grey Gardens was influenced by the style of cinema verité in a number of interesting ways, some of which were quite new to me. An initial example I can point to where this…

When comparing the two forms of documentary scholarship, being historical and analytical, I see plenty of overlap between the two in terms of what they contribute to our understanding of documentaries and our social world. Historical scholarship, to me, appears as though it is the understanding of the historical context…

Reflecting on the suggestion that the dichotomy between documentaries and fiction films is a false difference, as presented in the question I am addressing, would have led me to think quite differently in response to this idea in the past. I have to admit, that I didn’t quite know anywhere…

Watching the two documentaries The Nazis Strike, in Why We Fight and Triumph of the Will in consecutive order made me have a newfound realization of the complex definition of the term “propaganda”. In The Nazis Strike, the documentary I watched first, I began the viewing experience focusing on the…

The depictions of enemies and adversaries in espionage films is largely and often based on the ideological perspective of the film’s country of origin, and has frequently served as a way to promote nationalistic views of a respective nation or state, and to mete out the world’s “good” and “evil”…