“In my mind, there isn’t as much distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.” — Abbas Kiarostami Cinema’s capacity to document the world around us, to faithfully create an indexical record of its spaces and happenings, is a tradition that’s been with us at least since… Read more »
Acclaimed director Frederick Wiseman has explored many different types of places in the 53 years since he directed his first documentary. He has made films about everything from hospitals to boxing gyms, and shot them in places as eclectic as New York City and the small town of Monrovia, Indiana (a film partially inspired by… Read more »
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Guest post by Nathaniel Sexton. I recently had the opportunity of seeing Frederick Wiseman’s 1968 documentary High School for a second time, as part of IU Cinema’s ongoing Filmmaker to Filmmaker series. The last time I saw the film, over ten years ago, I was myself a student in a public high school. Indignation marked… Read more »