The Sublimity of Document
Cinema as Diorama
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 August 2019
- ISBN 9780190052133
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages560 pages
- Size 155x231x35 mm
- Weight 953 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with filmmakers devoted to documenting places and events that most of us never get to see-often, places and events that have considerable influence on our lives.
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The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with moving-image artists working "avant-doc, that is, making films that explore the territory between documentary and experimental cinema.
The book uses the early history of the museum habitat diorama of animal life, specifically the Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, as a way of rethinking both early and modern cinema document-and especially those recent filmmakers and films that are devoted to providing viewers with panoramic documentations of places and events that otherwise they might never have opportunities to experience in person.
This international collection of 27 interviews follows on MacDonald's earlier Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema (Oxford, 2015). The interviews, organized panoramically within the collection, are dense with information and insight, and readable by specialists and non-specialists alike. In most instances, these are the most in-depth and expansive-sometimes the first-interviews with these filmmakers.
Together, these interviews offer an engaging panorama of the recent history and geography of cinema devoted to documenting the world around us, as well as an in-depth look at the challenges and accomplishments of filmmakers willing to go anywhere on the planet (or on the internet!) to document what they believe we need to see.
MacDonald's general introduction provides an overall context for the collection, which includes interviews with Ron Fricke, Gustav Deutsch, Laura Poitras, Fred Wiseman, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Bill Morrison, Brett Story, Abbas Kiarostami, Lois Pati?o, Dominic Gagnon, Erin Espelie, Yance Ford, Janet Biggs, Carlos Adriano, Craig Johnson, Ben Russell, Betzy Bromberg, James Benning, Maxim Pozdorovkin, along with several veterans of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab (and with the executive directors of the distributor, Documentary Educational Resources, which has served the field of independent documentary for nearly fifty years)-each interview is introduced with MacDonald's overview of the interviewee's life and work.
The book includes filmographies and selected bibliographies for all the filmmakers
The Sublimity of Document may be the most aesthetically satisfying book of published interviews I've ever read. MacDonald has included a wealth of black-and-white images to accompany each interview and several separate sections of glossy, full-color frames from many of the films under discussion.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Ron Fricke
Gustav Deutsch
Laura Poitras
Fred Wiseman at the Brattle Theater with Hospital, July 19, 2010
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Bill Morrison
Brett Story
Abbas Kiarostami at Bard College with Five, March 4th, 2007
Lois Pati?o
Dominic Gagnon
Erin Espelie
Yance Ford, on Strong Island
Janet Biggs
Carlos Adriano
Craig Johnson
Ben Russell, on Good Luck
Betzy Bromberg
James Benning
Documentary Educational Resources (DER), a brief oral history
Pozdorovkin, on Our New President
"Sensory Ethnography" part 2: interviews with J.P. Sniadecki, Stephanie Spray, Véréna
Paravel, Libbie Cohn, Joshua Bonnetta
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
