It works sometimes, admittedly, but in other cases results in flat, documentary-style images of limited appeal.
For the Whitman exhibition, Dia will offer for sale a DVD they have produced containing "Prune Flat" and documentary fragments of other early performances.
Despite his preference for working in colour, Gursky's flat, dispassionate documentary style placed him squarely within the Düsseldorf school of photography, alongside Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, and Thomas Struth, all of whom studied under the Bechers.
This flat-footed documentary approach evokes Andy Warhol's deadpan, all-but-motionless 1964 classic, "Empire" — that eight-hour stationary shot of the Empire State Building — but Mr. Wilcox is too much of a storyteller to leave it at this.
Even the relatively compassionate flat-Earther documentary hosted on Netflix, Behind the Curve, couldn't help itself when it came to making fun of its main subject, Mark Sargent, an internationally renowned proponent for the movement.
I am also informed that Egyptian police raided the flat of a documentary film-maker last week and arrested him, allegedly for having footage of last summer's protest camp clearances.
Events Brooklyn Israel Film Festival (Thursday) The Israeli director Arnon Goldfinger's "Flat," a 2011 documentary about generational views of the Holocaust told through the story of the director's grandmother, an Israeli immigrant from Nazi Germany, will open this annual festival.
At one point in the documentary, flat-Earth commentator Nathan Thomson remarks on the misperceptions of his community.
For a while the documentary feels flat and somewhat chaotic, as the camera moves uncertainly from a teacher facing fidgety ninth graders in a "cultural awareness" class to an earnest kindergarten teacher doing stretching exercises with his charges.
Mark, meanwhile, declared his love for April, but obviously it wasn't quite as straightforward as that, and by the end the El Dude brothers were alone again, sitting in their flat watching a nature documentary about the reintroduction of wolves into the wild.
It might be hard to take seriously the fringe belief that Earth is flat, but a new documentary asks us to do just that, or at the very least to quit making fun of it.
