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  • DOCUMENTARY IRANIAN STYLE

    Women and the variety of ethnic communities are two of the most frequent themes dealt with in Iranian documentaries where the tradition for poetry…

  • INSISTING ON OFFBEAT FILMS

    Visions du Réel deserves credit for continuing to put documentaries of a more experimental nature on the program. Yet besides its retrospectives at the…

  • DOCUMENTARY VERSUS REPORTAGE: Constructing a Drama

    Most attempts to define the documentary genre have done so by distinguishing it from fiction. At the other end of the spectrum the documentary…

  • Egil A. Wyller: Your writings soar too high for me – almost beyond reach. This week sees the publication of your 17th volume in…

  • DOCUMENTARY TRUTHFULNESS: Witchhunt

    In Britain, the media's focus on fakery in documentaries has reached explosive heights. Consequently, the broadcasting regulatory body has started to follow rigid rather…

  • US UPDATE: Commitment

    Festivals around the USA report that independent American filmmakers are presently making the documentary a genre worth talking about

  • CENSORSHIP?: On Behalf of the Audience!

    Italian Broadcaster RAI refuses to air "The Gulf War Syndrome", a controversial documentary which they themselves commissioned and paid for

  • What meaninglessness?

    PHILOSOPHY: No coherence in existence …?

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