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

ReassemblageTrinh T. Minh-ha

The Colonized Eye: Rethinking GriersonJoyce Nelson

Roger and MeMichael Moore

Fahrenheit 9/11Michael 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