Cinema Verité/ Direct Cinema: The Narrator in the Room
French New Wave | 1950
Left Bank Group [Narrative] / Right Bank Group [Documentary]
Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Demy, François Truffaut / Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda
La Jette (1962), Dir. Chris Marker
Cinema Verité
Jean Rouch [homage to Dziga Vertov’s “kino-pravda”]
“Complex relationship between cinema and the reality it is attempting to document”
- Camera produces its own truth.
- Limited equipment & crew [5-6]
Creating a scenario, without an established structure, which is driven by the unpredictable manner of its characters and their reactions to the camera.
Vampires of Poverty (1977), Dir. Luis Ospina
Direct Cinema
a purist approach to Cinema Verité, in which the influence of the observer on the observed had to be kept to a minimum.
- Camera depicts the truth.
- Minimal Equipment & Crew [1-3]
PRIMARY (1960), Dir. Robert Drew