Documentary Film-Investigation: Manipulation or Impartiality?

A Canadian perspective on documentary film: Drug Addict.

BACKGROUND In 1948 the first National Film Board (NFB) documentary in Canada about illegal drugs, trafficking, and addiction was produced. The documentary is titled Drug Addict, and was directed by Robert Anderson. This paper provides a socio-historical context for the documentary Drug Addict. Viewing the film through the lens of Canadian history gives readers a better context to understand the...

A Review of the documentary film Shugendō Now

The Role of Computer Graphics in Documentary Film Production

We discuss a topic on the role of computer graphics in the production of documentaries, which is often ignored in favor of other topics. Typically, except for some rare occasions, documentary producers and computer scientists or digital artists that do computer graphics are relatively far apart in their domains and rarely intercommunicate to have a joint production; yet it happens, and perhaps ...

Crisis, Conspiracy and Rights; Imaginaries of Terrorism in Documentary Film

The dispersed character of terrorism as a practice became more coherent to the Western realm through the operationalisation of counter terrorist discourses. The media played a major role in that in the sense that they provided public ‘visibility’ upon the potentiality of terrorist threat. What this essay would like to discuss is the way such representations of threat negotiate a number of issue...

Artificial, Natural, Historical: Ambiguities of Synthetic Sound in Documentary Film

This paper discusses the role of synthetic sound in the construction of authenticity and historicity of documentary film in the light of the documentary “All that we have” [9] and its making. It argues that the delimitation between the “natural” and the “artificial” constitutes a key element in the reflection on documentary film sound. After a general inquiry of cinematic sound (part 1 and 2) i...