Los conflictos del documental español: el caso de Basilio Martín Patino by Manuel de la Fuente

“…Spanish filmmaker Basilio Martín Patino’s documentaries show a number of textual and political issues and conflicts. …”
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Raúl Ruiz en Italie : vers un art déterritorialisé by Boris Monneau

“…Raúl Ruiz is essentially known as a filmmaker. Nevertheless, he is also the author of a vast although mostly unpublished body of literature. …”
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À l’écoute des adaptations de Madame Bovary by Mary Donaldson-Evans

“…Theoretically, there is nothing easier for the filmmaker than to reproduce on the screen this sonorous mimicry of the realist text. …”
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Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997) by Claire Dutriaux

“…The director makes use of generic hybridity to show the persistence of a “racial Frontier” on screen. The filmmaker modified the known accounts of the 1923 Rosewood massacre to include a Western-style resolution to historical conflicts.…”
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Sur quelques films “sylphiques” by Charlie Hewison

“…Based on the study of two contemporary photochemical experimental films - Zillertal by Jürgen Reble (1991/1997), sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars by Tomonari Nishikawa (2014) - and a documentary from the 1980s - Chernobyl, A Chronicle of Difficult Weeks by Ukrainian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko (1986) -, which we define as “sylphic”, in reference to the writings of the alchemist Paracelsus, for their material capacity to make visible in striking ways the “chaos” or “vital space” of the atmospheres with which they come into contact, we propose to explore the ways in which the notion of atmosphere is becoming central to new theoretical approaches to media.…”
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Les documentaires politiques de Robert Greenwald : définir des nouvelles pratiques militantes à l’ère d’Internet by Delphine Letort

“…Robert Greenwald’s emergence as a documentary filmmaker is linked to the political context of George W. …”
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Judas Iscariot: The Archetypal Betrayer and DeMille’s Cine-Biblical Salvation within The King of Kings (1927) by Anton Karl Kozlovic

“…It was concluded that DeMille was a defter biblical filmmaker than has been hitherto appreciated. Further research into DeMille studies, Hollywood epics, and the emerging interdisciplinary field of religion-and-film is recommended, warranted, and already long overdue.…”
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« Spirit of the dead, rise up! […] and claim your story ». Représentation de l’esclavage et esthétique de la résistance dans Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Haile Gerima, an independent Ethiopian filmmaker who belonged to the LA Rebellion film movement, directed films which dealt with various aspects of the African American and black diasporic experience. …”
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Tunde Kelani: The Man Exceeds the Frame by Toyin Falola

“… The extraordinary announcement, coming from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, that ace filmmaker Kelani will now be based there as a Fellow is heartwarming. …”
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Protocole d’errance d’une forme by Francesca Cozzolino, Coralie Maurin, Kristina Solomoukha

“…Designed by an anthropologist, an artist, and a filmmaker, this audio-visual narrative is built like a virtual trip through different groups of images in which different variants of the caracol are shown—a motif that, ranging from the representation of the snail shell to the spiral, embodies both the Maya past and the Zapatista ideals of the present. …”
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Sud de Chantal Akerman ou une histoire de territoire et de terre : le Sud comme espace de mémoire by Marie Liénard

“…The article examines Chantal Akerman's work Sud (South) filmed in 1999. The Belgian filmmaker had always been fascinated by the Southern part of the United States. …”
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La cabane éclatée. Morcellement des objets immobiliers apparentés à l’art brut by Roberta Trapani

“…In the early 1930s, Jacques Brunius (1906-1967), poet and filmmaker, introduced the remarkable architecture of a rural postman from Hauterives, Ferdinand Cheval (1836-1924), to the surrealist group. …”
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Powidoki twórczości Federica Felliniego w "Mieście Snu" Krystiana Lupy by Katarzyna Gołos-Dąbrowska

“…He “borrows” characters from the filmmaker’s motion pictures and the Italian’s biography. …”
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Kitsch, classes sociales et multiculturalisme dans My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985) by Lionel Souquet

“…In 1985, My Beautiful Laundrette was the movie which earned Stephen Frears full recognition as a filmmaker. Despite a low budget he brought his trademark boldness to Anglo-Pakistani writer Hanif Kureishi’s screenplay. …”
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Adebáyọ̀ Fálétí: The Passing of a Cultural Icon by Akin Adeṣọkan

“…Walking out the building with cultural critic Toyin Akinosho at the end of a visit with the filmmaker Tunde Kelani, I also find it quite chastening.   …”
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Une « drôle de guerre » à l’écran : Khalkhin Gol by Alexandre Sumpf

“…Shot in 1939 in Mongolia and edited in Moscow by documentary filmmaker Ilya Kopalin, Khalkhin Gol recounts the achievements of the Red Army and its commander General Zhukov in the struggle against the Japanese enemy. …”
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Shakespeare à l’écran : Makibefo d’Alexander Abela, un exemple extrême d’appropriation culturelle by Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède

“…By transposing the play Macbeth to an unusual context, a poor fishermen’s village lost at the other end of the world, the filmmaker means to enhance its mythic and universal dimension. …”
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Cinema and city placement of Porto: from Manoel de Oliveira to Gabe Klinger by Xosé Somoza Medina

“…This article analyses the relationship between cinema and the city of Porto, from the first film episodes to the co-financing by the local Film Commission of the film Porto, by Brazilian-born filmmaker Gabe Klinger. The study contrasts the way in which local director Manoel de Oliveira projected the city of Porto in his works, with the objective and qualitative analysis of Gabe Klinger’s film. …”
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Documenting the Social and Historical Margins in the Films of Philip Donnellan by Ieuan Franklin

“…He created a space within his films that would allow them to speak for themselves without any overt intercession from the authorial tones and spurious objectivity of the filmmaker or the BBC. More than a document of the contemporary condition of the marginalized however, Donnellan’s films persistently convey a sense of the weight of history, exploring memory and archival evidence in order to pose difficult questions about the construction of history. …”
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L’œuvre d’Alan Berliner ou l’autobiographie comme l’affaire de tous by Jean-Luc Lioult

“…Alan Berliner is a fascinating, unclassifiable independent filmmaker who has devoted 25 years to the making of films which have led him from a reflection on family in general to the questioning of his own family, then to an interrogation on identity and finally to his self-portrayal as an artist. …”
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