Ryerson Lecture Series: October 4, 2007 – Jennifer Baichwal

“Manufactured Landscapes”
“Let It Come Down”
“The Holier It Gets”
Documentary filmmaking is kind of an existentialist state.
Responding to the situation.
Subordinate relationship between text and images.
She does not like “B-roll”.
Structure should unite with content.
Hard to make a film in a foreign country without giving it a “National Geographic” feel (exotic).
Confessional work?
How do you not betray the subject?
By interacting with siblings she wasn’t in the film (family film).
By making film, no interaction with siblings (transporting father’s ashes to India).
To “sell” the film, one easily betrays the subject.
The more particular you get, the more real your story can get.
120 drafts of narration (confessional work’).
When you are invisible (behind the camera) there is no vulnerability exchange.
Any film about photographers is a film about representation.
The artist’s work as a departure point.
Represent representation without making it a central issue in the film.
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~ by epkfilms on June 14, 2008.