This traveling show, which originated at the High Museum in Atlanta and was in Washington at the time of the Obama inauguration, is a photo-documentary display in the classic sense.
In their beautifully composed cutaway shots and two-second vignettes, Mr. Wiseman's documentaries display a surprising affinity with the work of experimental filmmakers such as Ernie Gehr or Rudy Burckhardt.
Meanwhile, the film has been restored by Fendi, and Mr. Visconti has a documentary on display made by his nephew, Ferdinando Cito Filomarino.
In truth, the dozens of documentaries on display at this year's Toronto festival, which opened on Thursday night with Davis Guggenheim's "From the Sky Down," a tribute to the band U2, have reached in all directions.
EL VELADOR (2011, 72min Director: Natalia AlmadaCountry: MexicoAlmada's documentary EL VELADOR displays the world of "El Jardin,", a cemetery in the drug heartland of Mexico.
Of course instead of showing an anti-Anonymous documentary, the mimic site displays - well, we'll let you have a guess.
Now she has something new on display: a documentary.
But Besson's film doesn't display the documentary sensibility, the practical curiosity, that this would entail.
Photographer Hannah Starkey's display of documentary portraits from the 1970s, meanwhile, offers a subtle reflection on gender codes.
Mr. Moakley's documentary project is on display through Oct. 23 at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in Snug Harbor on Staten Island, where he will give a talk at 2 p.m. Saturday.
And while "The Fog of War" is less dramatic, it also offers a bravura display of documentary technique and can stand, like Mr. Morris's other films, as an elusive, engrossing character study.
