Closer to home, Trevor Eve comes to Hereford with the self-explanatory film Death Of A Farmer, directed by his son Jack.
The exhibition is a typical contemporary media layer cake--photographs, lots of words in explanatory captions, excerpts from films and television shows, family-friendly interactive stations and computerized versions of almost everything in the show.
Onstage afterward, Mr. Gibney wrestled with a core problem for documentaries: how to present anonymous sources without compromising the entertainment and, sometimes, explanatory value of a film.
Art, as Sontag persuasively argued, doesn't stand for something else but is itself a thing, and while Mr. Dorsky's films can inspire explanatory reveries, they are also beautiful objects.
In the final version of the film, he added explanatory title cards as a postscript to soften the impact.
For this he approached the project as he might a feature film, avoiding an explanatory voice-over, adding atmospheric music and cutting between interviews and archival footage with the pace of a thriller.
The film is ultimately explanatory, and those who claim to prefer not knowing the artist's biography will be proved wrong.
Another difference from the original version of the film was the inclusion of a short explanatory note at the beginning of the film, detailing the life of Andrei Rublev and the historical background.
His films include the self-explanatory Tokyo Gore Police, Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl, Helldriver and Machine Girl.
There is nothing demonstrative or explanatory in the way these are filmed.
