How do you make a beautiful and personal documentary about a hero? And what if your hero is a filmmaker and has already made beautiful footage himself? How free can you be with your subject matter? For a long time, my problem with IDFA has been that the documentaries are so well behaved, so focused on the subject and not on the medium itself. In a kind of glorified talk-picture model, interviews, archive footage and other source material are interspersed for the most faithful portrait possible. But that should also span...
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