[Frameworks] experimental documentary

[Gene Youngblood]

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 
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  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 <f at fredcamper.com>
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  Sent: Sat, July 17, 2010 6:22:00 PM
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  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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