A year and half ago, I moved into a house in a corner of Provo I was unfamiliar with. Everyday, I would wait at a stop light to exit or...

Many pieces of art seek to help outsiders understand minority experiences. Will and Harper  and Between the World and Me  are excellent...

Henry Whiteley Doc Mode Activity 2 TMA 293 This film is a segment of a series of lock off shots in tourist and travel locations in...

This excerpt of Imagined Communities  makes the claim that nationalism is an imagined political community.  It’s less about beliefs,...

Bing Liu follows himself and two friends as they attempt to navigate the world as adulthood sets in. These friends battle mental health...

From the dawn of documentary filmmaking, the morality of balancing intervention and observation to display truth was hotly debated.  In...

The Act of Killing and Night and Fog tackle a past genocide using two drastically different approaches. Documentaries are faced with a...

Reflexive and participatory documentaries are overlapping but distinct modes of documentary filmmaking.  Both using the medium of...

I am fascinated by the balance of reality and emotion. Performative documentaries prioritize the emotional truths. They are less...

“Voice” is a fascinating concept. When we watch and write about films, breaking down voice, how it affects the narrative, and how it...

Reflexive mode seems to be sprinkled into a lot of documentaries. There are some documentaries that seem to rely on that more heavily...

Observational films can be a difficult watch. I love them, but it has taken me time to develop the patience and mood in which I can more...

I find documentary ethics endlessly interesting. Not because the ethics are grey, but because the execution of ones ethics is incredibly...

Observational documentaries are invaluable pieces of history and art. They give us a glimpse into settings and peoples that we would...

Sponsors have been a part of camera work since its conception. Early photographers were largely wealthy people with expendable time and...

Documentaries are complicated to define. However, it seems to boil down to how the documentarian chose to interact with the subject and...

It is fascinating how external circumstances heavily dictate what art is made, how it is made, and how it is digested. Documentaries in...

Jennings is endlessly fascinating to me. When every nation in the war saw the power and importance of documentaries, many people had the...

In my history of photography class, I noticed many great painters were interested in photography. The skill sets of transforming a two...

I never thought it would be so complicated to define what makes a documentary. The spectrum of reality within all film and TV creates a...