What:
A panel discussion on ‘The Art of Capturing Reality- Documentary’. Anjali Monterio in conversation with Debra Zimmerman, Surabhi Sharma, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur & Patrick Shen.
When:
17th January, 2014.
4.30pm – 6.30pm, followed by tea & networking.
Entry:
Free
Venue:
Conference Hall,
St. Andrews College,
St. Dominic Street,
Bandra West, Mumbai: 400050
About the event:
Participating will be Debra Zimmerman, a U.S. film expert and Executive Director of the non-profit group Women Make Movies; PatrickShen, a multiple award-winning U.S. filmmaker; filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Celluloid Man; and Surabhi Sharma (Bidesia in Bambai). Anjali Monteiro (Professor and Dean, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences) will moderate.
A panel discussion on ‘The Art of Capturing Reality- Documentary’. Anjali Monterio in conversation with Debra Zimmerman, Surabhi Sharma, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur & Patrick Shen.
When:
17th January, 2014.
4.30pm – 6.30pm, followed by tea & networking.
Entry:
Free
Venue:
Conference Hall,
St. Andrews College,
St. Dominic Street,
Bandra West, Mumbai: 400050
About the event:
Participating will be Debra Zimmerman, a U.S. film expert and Executive Director of the non-profit group Women Make Movies; PatrickShen, a multiple award-winning U.S. filmmaker; filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Celluloid Man; and Surabhi Sharma (Bidesia in Bambai). Anjali Monteiro (Professor and Dean, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences) will moderate.
- 1/15/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Capturing Reality: The Art Of Documentary Review Pt.1 The problem with those comments is that none of them really addresses the fact that documentaries are not really concerned with truth, but with reality vs. fiction. Many people confuse truth with reality, and given this film’s title it would have behooved Ferrari to explore the very difference between reality and truth that so many of the interviewees declaim. The two words are not synonyms. Truth requires an act of volition whereas reality does not. If I am wearing a blue shirt, that is reality. If you say to me, "Dan, you are wearing a blue shirt," that is a truth. Reality doesn’t care if it is noticed or not, but a truth always requires an act of notice. Paradoxically, reality is sometimes best captured via "falsehoods," such as those Herzog and Morris employ. What separates a propagandist like Michael Moore...
- 11/11/2011
- by Dan Schneider
- Alt Film Guide
Capturing Reality: The Art Of Documentary (2008) Director: Pepita Ferrari Cast: Kevin Macdonald, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Jennifer Baichwal, Eduardo Coutinho, Joan Churchill, Nick Broomfield, Patricio Guzmán, Werner Herzog, Jessica Yu, Scott Hicks, Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Hubert Sauper, Peter Wintonick Pepita Ferrari's Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary Pepita Ferrari’s 2008 documentary on the insights of the documentarian’s craft, Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary, is a solid effort. However, despite its nature, Capturing Reality never does what it celebrates in the works of others: it fails to innovate and explore every way that true stories can be told. In fact, Ferrari's 97-minute film consists of the talking heads of about 40 documentary filmmakers, interspersed with 150 or so scenes from their films. Aside from the pedestrianism of the enterprise, the reality is that very few of the clips shown in Capturing Reality actually articulate the points made by the featured filmmakers,...
- 11/11/2011
- by Dan Schneider
- Alt Film Guide
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