Taking to the stage of the eerily quiet Tuschinski cinema in Amsterdam—just after the sad news of the death of Italian documentary filmmaker Valentina Pedicini, at the age of 42, had been made ...

Over the course of his very long career, director Frederick Wiseman has always worked in nonfiction, in the realm of the real, yet his films may best be described as novelistic. Embedding himself in ...

General introduction: authorship, praxis, observation, ethnography -- Part I. Histories: ethnographic film in the twentieth century. Introduction -- The long prehistory of ethnographic film -- Travel ...

“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second,” says Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor) in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 film “Le Petit Soldat.” Capturing the world has preoccupied humans since ...

A short documentary revealing the hidden beauty of New Hampshire’s aviary population, captured from various scenic locations around the Durham area. The film is intended as a cinéma vérité piece, or a ...