"There's a spectrum running from documentary to drama, and Summers swings the dial all the way over to drama," says Bryony Dixon, silent film curator at the BFI.
The show's spectrum ranges from documentary (Nontsikelelo (Lolo) Veleko's photographs of stylish Johannesburg teen-agers) to abstraction (Olalekan Jeyifous's quasi-modernist architectural sculptures).
"Spectres of the Spectrum" is a documentary collage, composed of scraps from 1950's television shows, defense department films and an obscure educational docudrama on the life of Alexander Graham Bell, among other things.
One of my favorite images: Rivers shlepping through an airport at 3 30 A.M. On the opposite end of the feel good spectrum lies The Other City, a documentary directed by Susan Koch and written by Jose Antonio Vargas.
Dear Chris, I've hung out with a rainbow spectrum of pro-white groups (filming documentaries, not lynching black people, I hasten to add).
Dear Chris, I've hung out with a rainbow spectrum of pro-white groups (filming documentaries, not lynching blacks, I hasten to add).
Hersey's documentary eye captures a full spectrum of feeling – panic, grief, disgust, resilience, hope – often on the same page.
The spectrum runs from impotent observation (the French documentary) to complicity (the soldier's video diary) to actual violence (the terrorist Web site).
"Tales of Grabowski" belongs to the documentary end of Holocaust fiction's spectrum, shadowing John Auerbach's own experience of escaping the Warsaw ghetto, then surviving the war by impersonating a Polish gentile and working in the German shipyards.
The spectrum of autism is wide, as the low-budget documentary "The United States of Autism" shows.
