Sentence examples for ethnographic documentary from inspiring English sources

Ethnographic documentary was born here... kind of.

He shifted from ethnographic documentary to photographs as elaborately composed as movie stills.

Casting real people does lend the film authenticity, but there are also liabilities in mixing genres in a way that leaves viewers unsure whether they are watching an ethnographic documentary or a feature.

In 1960, the sociologist Edgar Morin approached Jean Rouch, who had reinvented the ethnographic documentary by filming his African subjects' self-dramatizations, about doing the same for Parisians, simply by asking them, on camera, "Are you happy?" The results are a shock.

Andrade's camerawork is calm and unaffected, his lens ever so grainy — the writing on the wall outside the screening room tells us that it is meant to mimic (and perhaps gently to mock) the placid, exoticizing style of ethnographic documentary, and that the intimate gesture between man and dying fish is an invention of the artist.

Along with the African themes, ethnographic documentaries had a prominent role in the early days of the festival.

At first glance, Otto Bell's The Eagle Huntress looks like one of those archetypal ethnographic documentaries with which Robert Flaherty kicked off the whole history of documentary film-making a century ago.

In between he found time to make a couple dozen feature films in Hungary, Hollywood, France and Denmark, and another dozen ethnographic documentaries made in locales as far-flung as Madagascar and Peru.

At Cinema 16, which he ran with his wife, Marcia, from 1947 to 1963, Vogel assembled programs that combined daring auteur cinema with newsreels, ethnographic documentaries, experimental shorts, science and nature films and more — a hodgepodge approach that reflected his catholic tastes and his belief in the power of unexpected connections.

He's a filmmaker, artist, designer and DJ, as happy to direct ethnographic documentaries with Thomas Bullock as he is knocking out 12" sleeves for other artists.

In the period following 1880 Bandelier undertook archaeological, ethnographic, and documentary studies in the Southwest and Mexico.