Jean Mitry. Historia del cine experimental. Documentales - Cine Directo
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- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsAllakariallakAlice NevalingaCunayouIn this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
- DirectorFrances H. FlahertyRobert J. FlahertyStarsTa'avaleFa'amgaseT'ugaitaFilmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s.
- DirectorWalter RuttmannStarsPaul von HindenburgThis movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.
- DirectorMannus FrankenJoris IvensStarsJef LastHein BlokCo Sieger
- DirectorRené ClairThe great French filmmaker René Clair crafted this elegant sepia-toned profile of Paris's iconic landmark almost forty years after the Eiffel Tower took its first bow (at the 1889 Exposition Universelle). It clearly still fascinates and awes in this loving and playful tribute. LA TOUR takes the viewer first up and then down the mighty structure while also acting as a tribute to its eponymous designer, Gustave Eiffel. The film initially burrows into blueprints and photographs of the earliest stages of its construction ahead of the opening of the World's Fair but Clair's film revels in the completed structure itself, reverently scaling its heights and accompanying tourists on up through the various levels toward the topmost landing. Clair also makes strategic use of double exposures and dissolves in capturing the mechanical exuberance of the tower lifts (which help make the great swooping steel latticework edifice a bounding symbol of the modern age). - Robert Avila
- DirectorMannus FrankenJoris IvensRegen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
- DirectorJohn GriersonA silent documentary film by John Grierson telling the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.
- DirectorWalter RuttmannAs talkies came in, Ruttmann experimented with sound as he had with abstract imagery, taking up Russian filmmaker Vertov's idea for a collage of clashing sounds, here presented against a black screen with no accompanying visuals.
- DirectorWalter RuttmannStarsIvan Koval-SamborskyRenée StobrawaGrace ChiangAn impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over the world. The film is constructed like a symphony.
- DirectorBoris KaufmanJean VigoWhat starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAbel JacquinAlexandre O'NeillA surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- DirectorJoris IvensA commissioned documentary short showing the effort over several years to close off a shallow bay in the northwest Netherlands from the rest of the North Sea by engineering a dyke,with an area later turned into land after drainage.
- DirectorJoris IvensHenri StorckDocumentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsColman 'Tiger' KingMaggie DirraneMichael DirraneIn this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
- DirectorBasil WrightStarsLionel WendtA short film which documents the lives of the Sinhalese people.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsW.H. AudenMontagu SlaterDocumentary showing the dangerous working conditions of coal mining across England, Scotland and Wales.
- DirectorHarry WattBasil WrightStarsArthur ClarkJohn GriersonStuart LeggShows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.
- DirectorPare LorentzStarsThomas ChalmersBam WhiteThis documentary is about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States when a combination of farming practices and environmental factors led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
- DirectorPare LorentzStarsThomas ChalmersThis documentary short film looks at the devastating and costly problems, including seasonal flooding and erosion of precious topsoil, associated with the Mississippi River system and promotes more Federal projects to remedy the situation.
- DirectorJoris IvensStarsEnrique ListerCarlos Romero GiménezJosé DíazA documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
- DirectorHarry WattStarsBill BlewittA dramatic reconstruction of the fishing trawler 'John Gillman' in trouble in a storm.
- DirectorHerbert KlineHans BurgerAlexander HammidStarsEduard BenesLeif EricksonKonrad HenleinA documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.
- DirectorHerbert KlineCharles KorvinStarsJohn O'ShaughnessyNorman BethuneHazen SiseA documentary about the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s.
- DirectorRalph SteinerWillard Van DykeStarsMorris CarnovskyA prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsLaurie LeeA look at how industry workers spend their time when they are not at work.
- DirectorJohn FernhoutJoris IvensStarsFredric MarchMorris CarnovskySidney LumetThe 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest.
- DirectorJoris IvensStarsWilliam AdamsStephen Vincent BenetHazel ParkinsonA documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States.
- DirectorHerbert KlineAlexander HammidStarsBurgess MeredithDocumentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsRobert J. FlahertyDocumentary showing the poor state that American agriculture had fallen into during the Great Depression.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStewart McAllisterStarsLeonard BrockingtonJoseph MacleodBud FlanaganA depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
- DirectorCharles HasseHarry WattStarsQuentin ReynoldsHow Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniA documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsPhilip DicksonGeorge GravettFred GriffithsA tale of firefighters in London during the Blitz.
- DirectorPaul Rotha
- DirectorAleksander FordMovie filmed directly after the liberation of the concentration camp at Majdanek, which is considered as the first in the world document the Nazi genocide. Interviews with prisoners from different countries of Europe. Documentary record of 24 and 25 July 1944.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsVillagers of CwmgieddArwel MichaelThe true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
- DirectorEli LotarStarsRoger PigautJose FerreiraFabien LorisA short documentary about the industrial area on the outskirts of Paris, where many of the poor and working class who could not afford the more expensive rents in the City found cheaper housing.
- DirectorRonald H. RileyStarsJohn LaurieShows in the blast furnaces, forges, rolling mills and machine shops work numbers of highly skilled craftsmen who for generations have devoted their lives to serve the tradition of British Steel.
- DirectorJean GrémillonThe film starts by a visit to bucolic Normandy before the events. This peaceful atmosphere is shattered by Operation Overlord, minutely described in the second part of the documentary. The landing on D-Day and the ensuing battles and bombings martyr the peaceful area giving the earth thousands of body instead of seeds. In the last part, the dreadful aftermath of the steel storm is shown both with sympathy for the victims and hope for the future, since all these sacrifices, whether military or civilians, have not been in vain.
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsJoseph BoudreauxLionel Le BlancE. BienvenuThe idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
- DirectorRay AshleyMorris EngelRuth OrkinStarsRichard BrewsterWinifred CushingJay WilliamsA young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.
- DirectorVittorio De SetaA documentary centered on the volcanic eruptions that occurred north of Sicily in December of 1954.
- DirectorLindsay AndersonGuy BrentonStarsRichard BurtonWon the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children.
- DirectorLionel RogosinStarsRay SalyerGorman HendricksFrank MatthewsBy focusing on the lives of three down-and-out alcoholic transients, the film creates a wrenching portrait of the tragic hopelessness of life on "The Bowery" in New York City.
- DirectorLorenza MazzettiDenis HorneStarsMichael AndrewsEduardo PaolozziVali MyersTwo dockers, both deaf and dumb, stand together.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsGilles QuéantDirector Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking, a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as if experiencing it from the mind and through the eyes of Marker.
- DirectorJean RouchStarsJean RouchA documentary short depicting a Hauka ceremony where young workers are possessed by British colonial officers.
- DirectorLindsay AndersonStarsAlun OwenA day in the working class market at Covent Garden in London, where fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers are sold.
- DirectorKarel ReiszStarsJon RollasonTony BensonAdrian HardingSeminal piece of documentary film by New Wave director Karel Reisz follows the daily activites of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late 1950's London.
- DirectorFrançois ReichenbachStarsGérard OuryA French documentary which explores the training and lives of United States Marines.
- DirectorJean RouchStarsOumarou GandaGambiPetit Touré"I, a Negro" depicts young Nigerien immigrants who left their country to find work in the Ivory Coast, in the Treichville quarter of Abidjan, the capital. These immigrants live in squalor in Treichville, envious of the bordering quarters of The Plateau (the business and industrial district) and the old African quarter of Adjame. The film traces a week in these immigrants' lives, blurring the line between their characters' routines and their own. Every morning, Tarzan, Eddy Constantine and Edward G. Robinson seek work in Treichville in hopes of getting the 20 francs that a bowl of soup costs them. They perform menial jobs as dockers carrying sacks and handy labor shipping supplies to Europe. At night, they drink away their sorrows in bars while dreaming about their idealized lives as their "movie" alter-egos, alternatively as an FBI Agent, a womanizing bachelor, a successful boxer, and even able to stand up to the white colonialists that seduce away their women. These dream-like sequences are shot in a poetic mode. Each day is introduced by an interstitial voice of god omniscient narration from Jean Rouch, providing a universal thematic distance to the movie's events. The film is book-ended by a narration directed at both Petit Jules and the audience from Edward G. Robinson fondly looking back on his childhood in Niger and concluding that his life is worthy of his dreams.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsGeorges RouquierA witty examination of life and culture in Siberia.
- DirectorRobert DrewStarsRobert DrewHubert H. HumphreyMuriel Buck HumphreyCinéma vérité feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsNicolas YumatovÉtienne LalouIgor BarrèreThe hour long documentary by the master of the essay film examines the country of Cuba under the dictatorship of Batista and then the seizure of power in a revolution by Castro.
- DirectorMario RuspoliStarsGilles QuéantM. BeaufilsFamille CheylaA cinema verite style documentary on farmers in a harsh South of France landscape who cling to out of date customs.
- DirectorJean RouchStarsNadine BallotDeniseElolaThe arrival of Nadine, a new student, at a school in Abidjan is the starting point for a discussion about interracial relationships.
- DirectorEdgar MorinJean RouchStarsAngeloNadine BallotCatherineA documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.
- DirectorMario RuspoliStarsMichel BouquetAllowed inside a psychiatric facility, the director documents the delusions of patients and the concerns of the staff.
- DirectorWolf KoenigRoman KroitorStarsPaul AnkaJules PodellA documentary chronicling the career of teen singing star Paul Anka (the title is taken from one of his hit songs).
- DirectorD.A. PennebakerStarsJane FondaDyan CannonBradford DillmanDocumentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for Broadway.
- DirectorMichel BraultMarcel CarrièreClaude FournierStarsEdouard CarpentierAl CostelloDominic DeNucciFollows the professional wrestling scene in Montreal and observes the before, during, and after portions of a major show and the spectators who are enthralled by it.
- DirectorArthur LamotheQuebecois lumberjacks have to face harsh working and living conditions to earn a living and support their families.
- DirectorMichel BraultPierre PerraultStarsLéopold TremblayAlexis TremblayAbel HarveyAt the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsClaude JutraJohanne HarelleVictor DésyA man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.
- DirectorAlbert MayslesDavid MayslesStarsJohn LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonA documentary following the Fab Four for five days in 1964. A humorous and freewheeling account of their first trip to America.
- DirectorJean-Claude LabrecqueA cinematic portrait of the 11th St-Laurent long-distance bicycle race, which covers 2,400 kilometres of the Gaspé region in the Canadian province of Quebec.
- DirectorAllan KingStarsMartin FischerChronicles 7-weeks in the lives of 12 emotionally disturbed children and their therapist's experimental method of treatment at the Toronto-area Warrendale facility.
- DirectorMichael WadleighStarsJoan BaezRichie HavensRoger DaltreyOscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.