Have a look at 'Great Events and Ordinary People' by Raul Ruiz.
Michael Chanan
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Subject: Spaces and simulation
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I'm trying to develop something into an essay, and I was hoping I would be
able to get some resources from the list. I've been looking at what
intrigues me most about cinema verite with the Canadian NFB filmmakers who
did the Candid Eye series, and it's the interaction of the film crew with
the subject of the documentary. In developing this further as a subject,
I've found the interest in it, at least for me, is the construct which is
interfered with by a space of reality. If it was a film focussing on the
interaction of the film crew, I think that the power of the interaction
would be lost, or if the interaction is fabricated, something, too, would be
lost. The space that I want to examine, then, is the space between reality
and the simulated environment that still exists in the documentary. I'm
going to use the Canadian cinema verite films, and I know of a film called
"The Left Side of The Fridge" which deals with the affect of documentary
film making on the documented, though it's a fiction. I know Fellini likes
to work with that space a bit, so I'm going to explore that further. Could
anyone recommend anything else to me? I'd greatly appreciate it!
-Jason Tenter
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