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In the early sixties a new generation of documentary filmmakers came to American television, using lightweight equipment to get closer to an unmediated reality. Their new, intimate style of filmmaking, called cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ or direct cinema, created a debate among professionals about documentary ethics. The following essay traces the development and criticism of cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ through the eighties.
Cin¨¦ma V¨¦rit¨¦
Film technique in which lightweight hand-held cameras and portable synchronized sound recorders are used. ... The term also embraces innovative approaches to documentary filming in the same period, best represented by the work of Jean Rouch in France and Drew Associates in the United States.
Cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ represents an attempt to get closer than other film genres to the untempered reality of life. ... The cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ film has no preplanned script, but rather relies on spontaneity. Cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ is, in a sense, "found" on the editing table, where the material must be organized in sequence. ...
The ideological roots of cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ can be traced to the writings of the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov--whose newsreel Kinopravda inspired the French term--and to the influence of the U. ... documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty. ... He emphasized detailed observation--the key to cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦--and the role of the editing process for "finding" the film.
The practice and theory of what is termed cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ actually varies enormously from filmmaker to filmmaker and from country to country. ...
Rouchs work in cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ reflected a belief in the camera as a catalyst that could encourage people to reveal their true selves. ...
The pioneers of cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ in the United States--reporter Robert Drew and photographer Richard Leacock--used it in a somewhat different way, which is often termed direct cinema. ... Pennebaker, and Gregory Shuker, and under the banner of Drew Associates made a group of films using cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ methods that defined the dominant path for cin¨¦ma v¨¦rit¨¦ in the United States for the next decade.
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