Experimental Documentary Questionnaire/Responses
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