Ebook: Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema

Introduction -- Annette Michelson -- Robert Gardner -- Ed Pincus (and Jane Pincus, Lucia Small) -- Alfred Guzzetti -- Ross McElwee -- Nina Davenport -- Leonard Retel Helmrich -- Jonathan Caouette -- Paweł Wojtasik -- Michael Glawogger -- Susana De Sousa Dias -- Amie Siegel (on DDR/DDR) -- Alexander Olch (on The Windmill Movie) -- Arthur and Jennifer Smith (on Ice Bears of the Beaufort) -- Betzy Bromberg (on Voluptuous Sleep) -- Jennifer Proctor (on A Movie by Jen Proctor) -- Jane Gillooly (on Suitcase of Love and Shame) -- Godfrey Reggio (on Visitors) -- Todd Haynes -- Sensory ethnography: Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (on In and Out of Africa and Sweetgrass) ; Lucien Castaing-Taylor (on his installation work) ; Lucien Castaing-Taylor (on "Sensory ethnography") ; Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel (on Leviathan) ; Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez (on Manakamana).;MacDonald explores the cinematic territory between the traditional categories of "documentary" and "avant-garde" film, through candid, in-depth conversations with filmmakers whose work has challenged these categories. Arranged in an imaginative chronology and written to be accessible to any film-interested reader, the interviews in Avant-Doc chart half a century of thinking by inventive filmmakers such as Robert Gardner, Ed Pincus, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Leonard Retel Helmrich, Michael Glawogger, Susana de Sousa Dias, Jonathan Caouette, Pawel Wojtasik, and Todd Haynes. Recent breakthroughs by Amie Siegel, Jane Gillooly, Jennifer Proctor, Betzy Bromberg, and Godfrey Reggio are discussed; and considerable attention is paid to Harvard's innovative Sensory Ethnography Lab, producer of Sweetgrass, Leviathan, and Manakamana. A rare interview with pioneering scholar Annette Michelson begins Avant-Doc's meta-conversation. --Provided by publisher.