In the year since the landmark January 25 , 2011 gathering on Tahrir Square, there has been a great exuberance of expression: theatre, documentaries, pop songs, political cartoons, and paintings.
Before the revolution, political expression in Egypt was stifled… Credit View full screen In the year since the landmark January 25 , 2011 gathering on Tahrir Square, there has been a great exuberance of expression: theatre, documentaries, pop songs, political cartoons, and paintings.
By Wendell Steavenson January 24 , 2012Before the revolution, political expression in Egypt was stifled… In the year since the landmark January 25 , 2011 gathering on Tahrir Square, there has been a great exuberance of expression: theatre, documentaries, pop songs, political cartoons, and paintings.
While it has long been acceptable for film-makers to graduate from such 'credible' training grounds as theatre, documentaries, and even TV dramas to the hallowed halls of movie-making, the stigma of commercialism has often haunted those who learned their trade in more saleable fields.
He loved all the arts and mastered many, from sculpture, painting and drawing to comedic improvisational theatre, from documentary to narrative film.
Pina (dir Wim Wenders, 2011) This is one of my favourites: it's a mixture of dance, theatre and documentary made about choreographer Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders.
In the experimental vein, Clio Barnard's inventive and compassionate The Arbor fused theatre and documentary techniques to re-create the late playwright Andrea Dunbar's turbulent working-class life.
While there is no participatory element to the performance other than the opportunity to buy the flipbooks afterwards, the show falls under the umbrella of live art by blending elements of lecture, cinema, theatre and documentary storytelling.
Like another filmmaker of "doing" and of the mysteries of performance, John Cassavetes, Renoir pushed the extremes of theatre and documentary into a paradoxical unity and relied on voices for multiple duty.
But Maziar's art, whether a piece of theatre, a documentary or a fictional film always remained inseparable from the reality of the world he lived in.
