Good News and Best Practice for Documentaries Using Archive Footage
Imagine Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY without Jimmy Carter’s downer speech on the economy and other audiovisual artefacts of U.S. collective memory; Sophie Fiennes and Slavoj Zizek without any clips from Hitchcock or David Lynch films to psychoanalyse for THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA; or Jean-Luc Godard’s HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA without, well, the cinéma. Without archival footage, BBC’s own conspiracy theorist Adam Curtis could go on the dole tomorrow. Use of third party content is a crucial practice for documentarians: to evoke another place and time, to portray and discuss historical events and to analyse the way the media shapes our perception of the world. (more…)

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The One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Prague opens today with the Iranian film “Green Days” by Hana Makhmalbaf. More information 
