In this boisterously reflexive documentary, the director James Toback lays his intentions on the line: accompanied by Alec Baldwin, he visits the Cannes Film Festival in order both to interview directors, actors, and producers whom he admires and to raise money for a movie that he wants to shoot.
Each of these works offers formal propositions for what a reflexive documentary image can be.
Meadow creates rigorous, reflexive and psychologically terrifying documentaries rooted in her own experience; and Carrie shoots chickflick blockbusters with a feminist twist that make her a fortune yet leave her feeling needy.
If you like the reflexive style of VICE documentaries, or the hyper-referential pastiche of Tarantino and Wes Anderson, then you like the work of Raoul Coutard.
The fourth section highlights the most commonly used photographic methods – documentary and landscape photography, photo-elicitation, reflexive photography, repeat photography, and paired comparisons – and briefly discusses each.
Rouch, a documentary filmmaker whose work of the late fifties veered toward reflexive fictions, was an inspiration for the New Wave.
Seated between his interlocutor, the critic Serge Daney, and the documentary's director, Claire Denis, Mr. Rivette -- a slight, thoughtful man who punctuates his answers with reflexive shrugs and bashful smiles -- declares, "It seems that Scheherazade is our patron saint".
This is as true of ostensibly observational documentaries, in which the filmmaker stays off the screen and the soundtrack, as it is of reflexive ones, in which the filmmaker appears.
