Rather than dampening the excitement around vérité filmmaking, David Holzman's Diary instead announced the birth of a whole new documentary subgenre.
Posts tagged “Personal Documentary”
Sticking With Caveh Zahedi
There are personal documentaries, and then there are personal documentaries. Caveh Zahedi makes the latter. In his feature-length films, which usually mingle fiction with autobiography, he has chronicled his long-term sex addiction, shown us his attempt to convince his father and teenage...
Impersonal Documentary
Compared to his father, Jeremiah Zagar is deeply concerned with his audience. At Union Docs this past weekend, during both the masterclass for the UD collaborative and the question-and-answer segment that followed the screening, he spoke frequently of his effort to make his dad Isaiah, the...
