Critical Writing Index

Experimental Documentary Questionnaire/Responses

by Lucas Hilderbrand and Lynne Sachs

Millennium Film Journal, Spring 2009, no. 51, pp. 11-48

This questionnaire answered by documentary and experimental film/video artists asks questions based around the validity of experimental documentary as a genre, the politics informed, and their relation to avant-garde cinema. Artists respond, each in their own format, with focuses on how they created their own works.

ITEM 2009.096 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Daughter Rite – Michelle Citron

Mixed Greens – Michelle Citron

What You Take For Granted – Michelle Citron

Reality and Motive in Documentary Photography – Donigan Cumming

A Prayer for Nettie – Donigan Cumming

My Dinner With Weegee – Donigan Cumming

The Waiting Time – Sasha Waters Freyer

Her Heart is Washed in Water and then Weighed – Sasha Waters Freyer

This American Gothic – Sasha Waters Freyer

Far From Poland – Jill Godmilow

What Farocki Taught – Jill Godmilow

Daguerrotypes – Agnes Varda

The Ties That Bind – Su Friedrich

First Comes Love – Su Friedrich

From the Ground Up – Su Friedrich

Jehad in Motion – Richard Fung

Schizy – Barbara Hammer

Available Space – Barbara Hammer

Bamboo Xerox – Barbara Hammer

Sanctus – Barbara Hammer

15 Experiments on Peripheral Vision – Adele Horne

The Image World – Adele Horne

Playas – Adele Horne

Alexandra Juhasz

Paradox – Leandro Katz

Las Hurdes – Luis Bunuel

Shoplifting: It's a Crime? – Sherry Millner

Ernie Larsen

Magnavoz – Jesse Lerner

Ruins – Jesse Lerner

The American Egypt – Jesse Lerner

Jean Genet in Chicago – Frederic Moffet

War Photographer – Christian Freil

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam – Lynne Sachs

Investigation of a Flame – Lynne Sachs

L'Amour Fou – M.M. Serra

Chop Off – M.M. Serra

Deborah Stratman

Hidden in Plain Sight – Mark Street

Tran T. Kim-Trang