In a retrospective beginning today, 28 of Ms. Varda's documentaries, fictions and film essays will be shown at the Film Forum.
American novelist and journalist noted for his documentary fiction about catastrophic events in World War II.
Sebald himself sometimes described his work as "documentary fiction," which goes some way toward capturing its integration of apparently irreconcilable elements.
Living in New York this year, I have to admit I've not been particularly homesick, except when reading Iain Sinclair's "documentary fiction" Hackney, That Rose Red Empire (Hamish Hamilton).
While the new project appears to be the first attempt to replicate the Apology Line in New York, efforts to use the old recordings have been made before in dance, documentary, fiction, film and, soon, theater.
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[He] uses a mix of documentary, fiction and improvisation to get to the root of the story, and this programme will try to find out the motivation for this unusual approach".
Wyler, meanwhile, used footage that he and other cameramen had taken in a variety of B-17s, including the Memphis Belle, and created a kind of documentary fiction of the crew's final run.
While Billington had some opportunities to shoot motion picture fiction shorts, Bleecker wrote, directed and photographed scenarios set in New York prisons, casting inmates as themselves, and thus should also be understood as pioneering what we today call documentary fiction.
Signing up for work as an extra brought Rahim into contact with a director who decided to make him the subject of a documentary – or rather, "a documentary fiction, a hybrid".
