Richard Leacock, RIP

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Richard Leacock, one of the founders or inventors of direct cinema style of documentary film making (a close cousin of cinema vérité) and a prolific documentary filmmaker, has passed away.  A good obituary and discussion of his work is on the blog All These Wonderful Things by AJ Schnack.  Ricky Leacock's own web site doesn't…
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Reflexivity

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Reflexivity in film making is a tricky thing.  It is very easy to fall into self-indulgent and narcissistic pits - why should our own struggles be interesting to anyone else?  The specter of the wealthy dilettante, fooling themselves that they are some sort of artist (and pandered to because they…
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