So I did a lot of research on that, and then just a lot of your standard Cold War documentaries, spy documentaries, a lot of those and internet reading.
For their latest project, Documentary Donnerstag (Documentary Thursday), which starts 28 March, the society will present a new documentary every Thursday for eight weeks – all curated from leading independent film festivals (including Cannes, Sundance, Berlinale, Raindance) and presented in their original language with English subtitles.
The Church of Scientology is not pleased with the documentary, and neither is Masterson, a second generation Scientologist, who told the magazine, "I heard about that documentary; the documentary where they interviewed eight people who hate Scientology.
WHEN is a documentary not a documentary?
While the first series was a fictional documentary, the second falls under the heading of what has come to be known as a mockumentary: a documentary about documentaries, a sendup of our current mania for watching ourselves watch ourselves.
"Is this a film about a documentary or a documentary about a film?" asks KRr at www.aint-it-cool-news.com, "Or a documentary about a documentary about a film?" AlienBoy responds, "I'm 99percentt sure it's a mockumentary starring Werner Herzog as himself trying to shoot a film about the Loch Ness monster, and everything goes horribly and hilariously wrong.
One day someone will make a documentary about documentaries about reality-TV shows, and that's the day when I'll finally hand in my remote.
"Is it a documentary?" "Is it like a documentary?" I find myself hearing (and asking) these questions so often that I have started to wonder what they mean.
So maybe I won't retire; maybe I'll do a documentary, or something more documentary-like.
It is not so much a documentary as a fictional film about the making of a documentary, or perhaps a documentary about the making of a fictional film about the making of a documentary.
