Category: Documentary

1. Compare and contrast, evaluate and critique, the use and effect of archival footage in the nonfiction films we have studied across weeks 9-14. I am not your Negro vs. Chisholm 72 Beyond the presentation of archival documentaries, it has fallen into two unfortunate groups. Theres the conventional variety of archival doc that consists of…

The documentary film, White Like Me, created by Tim Wise, provides a clear picture of what it’s like to be a white person in America. Wise brings to the screen his investigative racism and prejudices through the eyes of whiteness and white advantage. The narrative’s point of view is to understand the obviously calculated thought…

Documentary films are about documenting real life and not creating life like the purpose of animation, Waltz with Bashir (by Ari Folman), maintained simple story to get the message across, the filmmaker as the main character take us through the film and build up the story from not knowing what they are talking about to…

Many documentary narratives are heavily influenced by the unique relationship present between documentarian and their subject. Whether friendly, professional, neutral, or intimate, this connection ultimately skews the products position upon its subject matter and poses difficulties in exploring the subject matter in the manner intended by its documentarian. The choices in how each of the…

The modernization of our lives has a huge impact on one us, especially in the field of technology ushering in the computer age. It would be nice for everyone to work together, but this is not possible because conflicts of interest between people impede joint action. There are lots of name persons interviewed in the…

Thanks in large part to Netflix’s new documentary, people are beginning to recognize the dangers of modern social networking sites. The film includes interviews with sort of particular employees, executives, and other professionals from the sort basically top tech companies and sort of kind of social media platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Mozilla in…

From training dolphins for the famous American TV series Flipper, to now being an activist for these mammals, Ric OBarry has been playing a major role in trying to uncover a dirty secret that is performed by the Japanese fishermen. The Cove, an Oscar-winning documentary, directed by Louie Psihoyos shows the motives and passion that…

Kwame Nkrumah in his essay Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism unleashes two different dimensions where in theory a neo-colonial state seems independent and sovereign but in reality, that states economic system, political policy, cultural practices are influenced/controlled by external powers. In the documentary Life and Debt, directed by Stephanie Black, the director has carefully…