Its core is a series of candid, detailed interviews, filmed in England at Aldeburgh and Mr. Bream's home in Dorset, that are illustrated with documentary materials (family photographs, memorabilia and glimpses of manuscript scores) and performances, both new and archival.
In this way, The Light Surgeons create an immersive experience for the audience where images and sounds are layered on top of one another to create what Allen calls: "An audiovisual collage, kind of oral tapestries with multiple voices that interact with poetic documentary material that is manipulated as different layers of meaning.
Framing the love story with more documentary material, including the preparations for a workers' awards ceremony featuring a performance of the "Ode to Joy" by a visiting orchestra, Mr. Makavejev suggests that hypnosis functions on a social level as well.
Whether he slices the surviving moldy fragments of a lost silent film, as in "Decasia," or crafts a dirge to the 1927 flooding of the Mississippi River with old documentary material, as in the recent "The Great Flood, Morrisonn savors decayed film stock for its ghostly beauty.
These whodunit elements are interspersed with more conventional documentary material: interviews with filmmakers and scholars, clips from movies that have run into trouble with the board, and occasional sound bites from the irrepressible Mr. Valenti, who tells us that the folks who hand out the ratings are "neither gods nor fools".
And so he is relying on the sort of filmlike technique in Dos Passos, with headlines and documentary material spliced in.
"His remand status would have made it exceptionally difficult for anyone to engage properly with the voluminous documentary material, but it was especially onerous for him.
Mr. Schneider, Mr. Cowart, Mr. Kostenevich and John Elderfield of the Museum of Modern Art have among them made a catalogue that is the definitive study of this period in Matisse's life, truffled as it is not only with reinterpretation of individual paintings but with a mass of documentary material as well.
Instead, the show will consist of the cube with allied video and documentary material.
