Final Flashcards
Details about the film about eskimos
Nanook of the North (1922)
Dir. Robert J. Flaherty
Details about the film about bears
Grizzly Man (2005)
Dir. Werner Herzog
Perf. Timothy Treadwell
Details of film about musical instrument
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1993)
Dir. Steven M. Martin
Perf. Leon Theremin
Details about the film about an murder investigation
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Dir. Errol Morris
Perf. Randall Adams, David Harris
What are four key elements/characteristics that make up documentary films?
Indexicality (realness) Poetic Expression (artistic) Narrative Storytelling (story) Rhetorical Address (argument)
Name several elements of ‘voice’
Editing (cuts, juxtapositions, etc) Sound (or not) Shot Composition Arrangement of footage, selection of footage Mode of representation
What are the six modes of documentary filmmaking?
Expository Poetic Observational Participatory Reflexive Performative
Details about the Film about a German city
Berlin, Symphony if a great city (1927)
Dir. Walter Rutman
Propaganda film
Listen to Britain (1942)
Dir. Humphrey Jennings
Film about font
Helvetica (2007)
Film about two disturbed ppl living in a house
Grey Gardens (1975) Dir. Albert and David Maysles
Film about backup singers
20 ft from stardom (2013)
Dir. Morgan Neville
Film about an American city
L.A Plays Itself (2003)
Dir. Thomas Andersen
Before Flaherty, there was ______. What was his role in the development of the documentary?
Curtis.
DRAMA - Romantisize the present through depictions of the past
What did Flaherty contribute, adding to Curtis’ work? (What’s was Curtis’ doc?)
Drama had to arise from within the situation, not from without.
The Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
What is the ‘presence of absense’ refer to (Johnson about grizzly man)?
The medium always ‘returns to us’; a film is simultaneously very close and definitively inaccessible
In much of Grizzly man, what does our experience of the film rest on?
The knowledge of Treadwell’s death.
What is the link between Herzog’s film and Bazin’s theory?
Death - a strong connection between Treadwell’s camera and the spontaneous, uncontrollable reality before it. (Reality)
In Johnson’s writing about Grizzly Man, what is Synchresis?
The irresistible weld produced between an auditory phenomenon and a visual phenomenon when they occur together.
What, according to Johnson, is the primary reason for anxiety felt in the videotape scene in Herzog’s film?
Rooted in the knowledge that the footage is sound without image. (and the sound interpreted by Herzog’s physical reactions to hearing it).
What are the ‘gazes’ listed by Nichols!
Accidental Helpless Endangered Interventionist Humane Clinical
Film about tight rope walker
Man on Wire (2008)
James Marsh
Philippe Petit
