Solanas and Getino, Toward a Third Cinema, re documentary
The cinema known as documentary, with all the vastness that the concept has today…is perhaps the main basis of revolutionary […]
02. Theory
Selections from writing by filmmaker/theorists on political media.
Solanas and Getino, Towards a Third Cinema
Until recently, film has been synonymous with spectacle or entertainment: in a word it was one more consumer good. At […]
Solanas and Getino, Towards a third cinema
Third cinema is, in our opinion, the cinema that recognises in that struggle the most gigantic cultural, scientific, and artistic […]
Solanas and Getino, Towards a Third Cinema, re consumer
Man is accepted only as a passive and consuming object; rather than having his ability to make history recognized, he […]
Solanas and Getino, Towards a Third Cinema, re the film action
With the correct utilization of the time that that group of actor-personages offered us with their diverse hsitories, the use […]
Taylor, Gail. In Bejuga. Re scanning by info,
“There are simply so many options available to us when it comes to finding news, or other information, that there […]
Trinh, Minh-ha. “Documentary Is/Not a Name,” re artifice
A documentary aware of its own artifice is one that remains sensitive to the flow between fact and fiction….It recognizes […]
Trinh, Minh-ha. “Documentary Is/Not a Name,” re self/other
Thus, a subject who points to him or herself as subject-in-process, a work that displays its own formal properties or […]
Trinh, Minh-ha. “Documentary Is/Not a Name,” re voice
The socially oriented filmmaker is thus the almighty voice-giver (here, in a vocalizing context that is all-male), whose position of […]
Vertov, Dziga. “WE: Variant of a Manifesto” (1922)
“The machine makes us ashamed of man’s inability to control himself, but what are we to do if electricity’s unerring […]