Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-31 Thread Andy Ditzler
Hi Ken, Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line comes to mind immediately. The re-enactments are indeed expressive within the film's overall minimalist approach. Andy Ditzler Founder and curator, Film Love: www.filmlove.org Co-founder, John Q collective: www.johnq.org John Q in the New York Times

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-31 Thread Chuck Kleinhans
Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu On Aug 29, 2016, at 3:44 PM, Fred Camper > wrote: As words change their meaning through usage, "documentary" now includes films full of reenactments. The whole field

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-30 Thread Jeff Kreines
> On Aug 30, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Ken Paul Rosenthal > wrote: > > All one need do is consult the numerous interview in Scott MacDonald's > brilliant compendium of interviews on the intersection of avant garde and > documentary genres for how the documentaries have

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-30 Thread Ken Paul Rosenthal
Thanks to one and all for your suggestions. To clarify some questions/points that were raised/made: By 'expressive dramatizations', I did not intend to refer to 'docu-dramas', or clips appropriated from fiction films as illustrations within documentaries. So the question of where the clip or

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-30 Thread peter snowdon
Miguel Gomes, Arabian Nights. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/21/arabian-nights-vol-1-the-restless-one-review-miguel-gomes[1] >> >> > >> >> On Aug 29, 2016, at 11:42 AM, Ken Paul Rosenthal >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm researching docs that feature

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-29 Thread Adam Hyman
Hi, I'm biased (as I was co-producer), but "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (2007 is very interesting in the wide array of approaches it uses, from direct address to camera, archival footage, direct cinema, "dramatization," and animation to convey the writings of troops

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-29 Thread Jeff Kreines
> On Aug 29, 2016, at 5:44 PM, Fred Camper wrote: > > Do many people care about the difference at all anymore. Don't some > "theoreticians" even argue that the difference is irrelevant in our "fakey" > world? Theoreticians? Is that still a thing? Jeff Kreines Kinetta

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-29 Thread Fred Camper
On 8/29/2016 4:10 PM, Jeff Kreines wrote: ...Now it seems that many people prefer to fake it... Do many people care about the difference at all anymore. Don't some "theoreticians" even argue that the difference is irrelevant in our "fakey" world? As words change their meaning through

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-29 Thread Jeff Kreines
> > On Aug 29, 2016, at 12:42 PM, Ken Paul Rosenthal > wrote: > > I'm researching docs that feature expressive dramatizations, either as brief > interstitial moments or extended scenes such as 'The Act of Killing'. I look > forward to any and all suggestions.

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-29 Thread Gene Youngblood
Ken, Do you require that the “expressive dramatizations” come from the maker of the documentary? That’s important. There’s a doc about the history of class struggle in America that Link TV has been showing in the past few months which is illustrated entirely with clips from feature films, but

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-29 Thread Sofia Canales
S21 by Rithy Panh. Inextinguishable Fire by Harun Farocki, and also What Farocki Taught by Jill Godmillow ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

[Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

2016-08-29 Thread Ken Paul Rosenthal
I'm researching docs that feature expressive dramatizations, either as brief interstitial moments or extended scenes such as 'The Act of Killing'. I look forward to any and all suggestions. Thanks, Ken www.kenpaulrosenthal.com