Critical Writing Index

Documentary Reframed: Process, Politics, Aesthetic

by Maureen Latta

Saskatoon: Paved Arts, 2007

"The impulse behind Documentary Reframed: Process, Politics, Aesthetic is to explore how contemporary, independent cultural producers in Canada and abroad are testing the boundaries of documentary conventions in the post-Moore era of documentary popularity, aesthetic freedom, new technologies, and self reflexivity"

ITEM 2007.124 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Nanook of the North (1922) – Robert Flaherty

Reassemblage – Trinh T. Minh-ha

The Colonized Eye: Rethinking Grierson – Joyce Nelson

Roger and Me – Michael Moore

Fahrenheit 9/11 – Michael Moore

The Atomic Cafe (1982) – Fernando Solanas

When Canadians Attack (2005) – Octavio Gentino

The Creators of Shopping Worlds (2001) – Hamid Naficy

I Thought I was Seeing Convicts (2000) – Marcel Duchamp

The Phantom of the Operator (2004) – John Heartfield

Mixed Signal (2005) – Hannah Hoch

Ryan (2004) – Kevin Rafferty

Dreams of Jagodina (2005) – Brett Kashmere

Happy Crying Nursing Home (2004) – Roland Barthes

I have no memory of my direction (2005) – Harun Farocki

Sans Soliel (1983) – Harun Farocki

Window Water Baby Moving (1959) – Caroline Martel

Visitors of the Night (1998) – Richard Martin

The Day When the Moon Menstruated (2004) – Chris Landreth

Olivia's Puzzle (2001) – Nora Malone

Comrade Dad (2005) – Niklas Sven Vollmer

Seven Fires (2002) – Midi Onodera

Continuous Journey (2004) – Ryan Larkin

Chris Marker

Stan Brakhage

Edward Said

An Van Dienderen

Video in the Villages

Edward S Curtis

Takuma Kuikaro and Marice Kuikaro

Jason DaSilva

Karin Lee

Jennifer Wemigwans

Ali Kazimi

Sally Gaikezheyongai