Setting much of the taciturn, delicately choreographed action amid the city's bustle, the director fuses a rigorously stylized vision with incisive documentary observation; Tsai is one of the great sardonic observers of urban spaces, with a keen eye for both the alien chill of gleaming towers and the poetic allure of decrepitude.
Documentary, observation and scientific rigour combine in images that are both beautiful and complex.
(Dave Kehr) Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions (Friday through Thursday) China's economic transformation during the last two decades has yielded some powerful and strikingly original documentaries and fiction films grounded in documentary observation, made both with and without government sanction.
Documentary observations and theories preserved in books and essays published in Europe, and latterly in North America, are cited and complemented by visual evidence provided by surviving examples of art, design and technology.
Jia's previous films have been sedate, semi-documentary observations of his country's transition, but A Touch of Sin plays more like a Tarantino movie, or rather, the type of martial-arts movie Tarantino rips off.
But there's more to Beyond Caring than social documentary and observation, or even political commitment or outrage against Thatcherism.
Data from field notes, documentary reviews, observations and health facility surveys were used as supportive information in clarifying concepts that emerged during the content analysis process.
He does so with his wry and tamped-down tone, his loping rhythms, his puckishly frontal compositions, his worn-in sense of design, the winking terseness of his dialogue — and the loving precision of his documentary-rooted observations, which anchor his microcosmic cinematic world, with its austerely whimsical passions, in the world at large.
They employed a variety of techniques, including documentary research, aerial observation, geophysical survey, planning of earthworks, field walking (for surface potsherds), re-enactment and small-scale excavation.
This black and white series merges documentary and insider observation to chronicle the everyday life of a sex worker called Kathleen, whom Mendelsohn befriended.
Through a combination of documentary analysis, participant observation and qualitative interviews, this paper shows how tax professionals negotiate changing moral imperatives.
