Difference Between Search & Browse Methods in Odoo 17
1 intro
1. As you enter please pick up the syllabus
Tell me your name on the roster (and the name you
go by, if different)
Start the PERSONAL INVENTORY activity found on
Connect or online here:
https://goo.gl/forms/777yjy4jBbyz17X93
2. Introduce ourselves
Review the syllabus
Complete Interest Inventory
Documentary Form & Content
Watch a Doc
3. The Art of Truth, Intuition, Fear & failure
Week 1
SHANNON WALSH // FIPR 436A / 536 A
DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & FILM, UBC
7. What do you bring?
What would you like to learn?
Trust yourself!
Don’t be afraid to try!
All learning comes from failures
Look at the world around you everyday
10. “Modern documentary avoids telling us what to
feel or think. Instead it exposes us to
contradictory, provocative evidence that moves us
to inner debate and realization.”
11. What do you need? Engaging characters; narrative tension;
something to say about the world around us.
• Who does it? Artists; Filmmakers; Professional Journalists;
Activists; Ethnographers
Documentary is the “creative treatment of actuality” – John Greison
12. Doing “Self-Inventory” or finding creative voice, from “Directing Documentary” Michael Rabiger
Start looking by looking
around you.
What stories move you?
What excites you?
What do you want to tell?
What do you want to
preserve?
What is close to you?
HOW HAS LIFE MARKED YOU?
14. STYLES OF DOCUMENTARIES
Observational Documentary [1960s]
No commentary or reenactment; observe things as they happen
Participatory Documentary [1960s]
Interview or interact with subjects; archival film to retrieve
history
Reflexive documentary [1980s]
Question documentary form, defamilarize the other modes
Performative documentary [1980s]
Stress subjective aspect of a classically objective discourse;
‘excessive’ use of style
Poetic
Expository
15. LANDSCAPING
URBAN SELF PORTRAITS
METAL FILM
Subjectivity: “how someone's judgment
is shaped by personal opinions and
feelings instead of outside influences.
Subjectivity is partially responsible for
why one person loves an abstract
painting while another person hates it.”
16. “Since you must subjectively choose everything you show, your documentary can never
be objective truth. Instead, it is a construct by which you convey the spirit of truth.”
18. SUBJECTIVITY
Minority cinemas rise – Majority World, women, LGBTI, people of colour, etc
Subjectivity became ‘the filter through which the real enters discourse (Renov
2004:176)
19. “Fog of War” Errol Morris
DIVERSITY IS THE RULE,
NOT THE EXCEPTION!
24. “Maddin imitates, copies, & quotes a range of
styles, from German expressionism, Soviet
montage, French surrealism, film noir,
excessive melodrama, classic horror, trash
cinema and even early musicals.”
• Ivan Villarmea Alvarez, Documenting Cityscapes
33. SANS SOLEIL
CHRIS MARKER (1983)
"Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place”…
(And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place.)”
War turns Syrian soccer star Abdul Basset Saroot into a protest leader and singer who initially favors his country's peaceful liberation from Assad. However, the army's violent crackdown on civilian protests changes his mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhBPewcWZ1I
Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin conducts a personal tour of Winnipeg, Manitoba, the town where he grew up and still lives, in a film he calls a "docu-fantasia." By combining archival footage and interviews, dreamlike camera work and recreated scenes -- including several with actress Ann Savage playing the part of Maddin's mother -- the filmmaker builds a portrait of Winnipeg that manages to be historical, intimate, surreal, entertaining and entirely his own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9BtROpNQ4