Trinh T. Minh-Ha says that she set out to make Reassemblage as an ethnographic film that paid no heed to conventions of documentary. It seems from interviews with her that…
Had the opportunity to take in a piece of “ethnographic” history today: Robert Gardner’s Deep Hearts. The film is well-known not for being a particularly early documentary (made in ’79)…
The question while viewing The Body Beautiful from Ngozi Onwurah was whether or not it’s a documentary. Certainly a difficult one to answer, the film is clearly more than a…
