Cinema Verite / Free Cinema/ Direct Cinema
Opposite of scripted.
Taking history as it comes.
Asking for audience to identify with everyday life.
Major Films
Mama Don't Allow
We Are the Lambeth Boys (Sync Sound)
Eddie
Primary (I have seen this before... amazing)
Jazz Dance
Magazine X
La Lutte Wrestling
The Candid Eye
Lonely Boy (Paul Anka) - this is what I will focus on)
Emergency Ward
Major filmmakers
Wolf Koening
- 40s Farm Boy
- Joined NFB
- Camera/Open to moments to stuff you can't reveal
Henri Boessin
Karl Riesz
Richard Leacock
- Searching to make films more personal/less digital
- obsession of "feeling of being there"
- Look, Look and Look again
Bob Drew (his vision created cinema verite)
- Time magazine helped fund Cinema Verite
- Took about a year to get the camera, etc useable for the field
William Greece
- early 60s - brought his skills to the civil rights movement
James Lipscomg/Hope Ryden?
- Drama/Conflict
- quote - "How could I get involved if I wasn't emotionally involved"
Doug Leiterman
- Backdoor to Cinema Verite Through Jounralism
- Sent female reporter
- Meryl Fox
Pierre Perrault
- Canadian
- Radio Producer to Film
- "Life was the Director"
- "I became a participant, a partner"
Albert Maysles
- "Uncontrolled Cinema"
- "Great about it was the process of discovery"
- Give your subject empathy
Fred Wiseman
- Pompus french term that has no meaning
- "imapct... ordinary experience"
Barbara Kopple
- Allow life to unfold
- Harlan County USA 1976
- http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/harlan_county_usa
Technological Innovations
Kino Pravda
Mobile Camera
Sync sound
No Tripod - Just Shoot
New Cinemativ Language
Quartz Based Sync Metronome
Handheld Cameras
Major Themes
Capture Human Emotion Spontaneously
History on the Run
Worldwide movement - quickly spread
the revolution was shot and heard around the world.
What was at stake?
Truth
Reality
Moment in time (primary film)
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