The two events could not be more different. Visions du Réel was a small relaxed Swiss lakeside festival, showing a selection of some 100 documentary
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The eleventh annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, in its sixth collaboration with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, took
In its third year, docfest, New York's annual international documentary festival, has truly come into its own. A whirligig of screenings, Q&A sessions
When Taxicab Confessions premiered on HBO in 1995, normally cynical television reviewers from coast to coast tossed around words like “riveting,”
Created in connection with an annual conference under the same name, Visible Evidence is a significant new series of books from the University of
Editor’s note: I had a chance to talk with Harrison Engle about that article and the long strange trip from “Smile, you’re on Candid Camera” to “The
Editor’s note: Every so often, one happens upon an artifact that both reveals something about the tenor of the times and hints at the times to come
"I don't believe in the objectivity of the filmmaker," Hatem Kraiche asserts as he introduces himself. "l do believe in the honesty of the filmmaker."
I was recently talking to a manager of a sparse office tucked away in the bowels of Silicon Valley. He wanted to go back to film school and make films
In 1993 film scholars held the first Visible Evidence conference devoted exclusively to “strategies and practices in documentary film and video.” The