Creative and authored documentary film

To make visible the invisible has always been a key challenge to film. This paper will study how German director Werner Herzog, a regular explorer of the material / spiritual dichotomy, has managed to visualize something as invisible as faith in his documentaries Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of Time (2003). By identifying a strong narrative and aesthetic focus on gesture, we will work on a possible reading on physical devotion as a contemporary substitute to sacrifice. Gesture, then, will become not only the visible translation of what we will argue is represented as a natural and universal faith, but also the apparatus enabling the feeling of the sacred.

Resumen: La presente investigación aborda un estudio de caso concreto, la obra de no-ficción Bright Leaves del realizador norteamericano Ross McElwee. La investigación pretende descomponer narrativamente la misma para entender el tipo de ordenación que siguen sus estructuras. Se trata por lo tanto de un estudio de las estructuras narrativas de una obra en particular.

Abstract: This investigation focuses on a specific case study, the nonfiction
work of American filmmaker Ross McElwee, Bright Leaves. The research
aims to break down the same narrative to understand the type of
organization structures that follow. It is therefore a study of the narrative
structures of a particular work

An affectionate documentary film reading of multilingual love. A light hearted insight into the world of multi-lingual couples in Europe. Shot in 12 languages across Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary and Turkey, the film follows six couples into their worlds of language and love, told in both their words and those of Scottish psychiatrist and sometimes poet, R.D Laing. The film gives a unique insight into the challenges, humour and reality of relationships in modern Europe.

Film review of 2010 Sundance award winner "His and Hers", Irish filmmaker Ken Wardrop's debut feature. A film portrait of the mother archetype through oral ethno-histories told in cinéma vérité interviews with 70 women who range in age from birth to 90 years, all neighbors in the Irish Midlands. A beautifully photographed, chronological mosaic shot on super 16mm film and released internationally on YouTube. Unique.