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Films referenced:
Koyaanisqatsi 1982
Leviathan 2012
Sans Soleil 1983
Samsara 2011
Lessons of Darkness 1992
Cameraperson 2016
Sleep Has Her House 2017
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968
Chronicle of a Summer 1961
Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey 2016
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000
Man with a Movie Camera 1929
London 1994
Fata Morgana 1971
Labyrinth Ion 2022
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Chapters:
00:00 Cold Open
00:26 The Power of Context
01:39 The Beauty And Chaos of Experimental Documentaries
02:38 Non-Verbal Narratives
05:17 The Birth of Reality TV
06:13 Herzog's Ecstatic Truth
09:02 The Subjectivity of Image
09:50 A Genre of Trickery
11:59 A Guided Meditation
13:44 Revealing the Full Potential of Cinema
16:43 My Experimental Film
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Genre: Film & Animation
Date of upload: Jun 9, 2022 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
these are my favorite type of documentaries. in terms of purely visual ones, I'm surprised you didn't mention the excellent Apollo 11 documentary from 2019. watching that in 70mm IMAX was unbelievable
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More than 'experimental documentary" these are what used to be called "film essays", since they function more in the tradition of the literary essay. They share a lot of things in common regarding their relationship to reality, the fact that they both reject being pigeonholed as just "non-fiction" or just journalism, and their dealing with other forms of expression such as poetry. Some people classify the film essay as being a part of the documentary category of film but I personally think that the 'essay' name is what we should have been calling the category from the start in opposition to being just a fiction film and for the reasons I mentioned before. It makes more sense for the reasons outlined in the video to say that you’re making a film that is "essaying" with a subject or group of subjects than it is to say that you are just "documenting" which implies (again, like the video says) that you’re just an impartial spectator and aren't introducing your subjectivity into the film. The thing is, that in the youtube era the term has lost its original meaning and we use it for a much wider range of things and most of the public just associates the term with short videos online.
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Every shot from your film at the end is incredible, any one of them made me want to walk a video game character through it and explore it as a "place"
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Baraka was my introduction to this genre and has become one of my favorite films. The older I've gotten the more I've grown to appreciate nonverbal storytelling in general.
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Sans Soleil is my favorite movie of all time. After seeing it, I was desperate to find more movies like it, and so I found this niche, which includes so many great films and filmmakers that more people should be aware of. So glad you made this video!
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I can put into words how it does, and it's probably different for everyone who sees it but I don't think you can walk away from Koyaanisqatsi without your perception of "reality" on Earth deeply challenged, if not upended. I just stumbled across it on public TV, not long after it was released, with know context or introduction. There it was. There I was...transfixed, stunned, confused, revolted, ecstatic, breathless, and moved almost tears by both the beauty and tragedy of it's unflinching reality.
The sequel, Powaqqatsi, is equally as amazing.
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It's videos like this which I yearn for on youtube when it comes to watching cinema related essays. It's videos like this which restore my love and faith in movies as a piece of art and not just as an entertainment.
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So glad that F for Fake is mentioned here. That one is severly underlooked, like many movies Welles did after Citizen Kane.
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If I were to summarize your videos (at least recently), I’d say you are fascinated with how the medium of film can be used to evoke subjective experience. You talk a lot about objectivity vs. subjectivity, and how playing with those notions can make the audience see, hear, feel, and experience things more viscerally and authentically. I love it, keep up the great work, Thomas! Thank you for some of the best video essays in YouTube!
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The beauty and choas
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You might've just made my favourite youtube video in a long while, THANK YOU
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I am so impressed by your ability to write and narrate with a clear, academic, and intentional tone while still maintaining a consistent personal candor. Thank you for your work and introducing these documentaries! Im excited to check them out!
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“Stories are discovered not created.”
I have seen none of the films you mentioned here yet I find myself nodding vigorously with what are being said. THANK-YOU so much for making this essay and for leaving those references so I can make my own discovery.
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Since I’ve been going to more museums I’ve been seeing imagery similar to this and just been desperate to find little clues to where I can see more of it and you just blessed us with this little golden nugget of a video.
Thank you so much for sharing this !
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AMAZING video, thank you for this. You really tap into something profound and examples of artists challenging the limits of the medium. Kepp them coming <3
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Stark! Love your videos, they expand my interests and the way I see cinema, films and the world. Thank you for your work.
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I have a lot of appreciation to The Man with a Movie Camera, when I watched that film for the first time I was blown away by the editing, it looked so modern being a movie from 1929.
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You are definitely shaping my understanding of the art of film. Love every video you make, this is one of the best. Also love your own film, looks like a great experience i’d love to watch it.
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Thank you for making a beautiful video! I feel enriched having listened to you speak!
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@JabaToons
1 year ago
Koyaanisqatsi is one of the greatest films ever made. Every human being should see it!
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