From: Gene Youngblood (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Jul 17 2010 - 19:48:49 PDT
I prefer the term nonfiction over documentary. It helps clarify the conversation around the lists offered here, but that's not to say it is any less problematic.
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From: Matt Helme
To: Experimental Film Discussion List
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] experimental documentary
Some People would make a distinction between a documentary and a document. The Pittsburgh films would be a document.
Matt
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From: Fred Camper <email suppressed>
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Sent: Sat, July 17, 2010 6:22:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] experimental documentary
I like very much a relatively little-known recent feature length
documentary, "The Limits of What We Know," by Amy Bodman. The film's
site is http://www.thelimitsofwhatweknow.com/ , and I have a brief
comment under "reviews." It's perhaps not "experimental" in the sense
usually meant here, but it is in the sense that it's not at all like
mainstream docs, but if anything opposed to them.
Travis Wilkerson's "An Injury to One" is really good, and original; I
have a capsule review at
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/an-injury-to-one/Film?oid=1051822
Brakhage's three Pittsburgh films, "eyes," "Deus Ex," and "The Act of
Seeing with one's own eyes" are clearly experimental documentaries, as
is his later "The Governor," which is superb and fascinating and has
been under-recognized. See also Bruce Baillie's "Here I Am," "Yellow
Horse," and "Port Chicago Vigil."
Fred Camper
Chicago
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