Auteur documentary

In 1922 an explorer spent a year among the Inuit and brought back a film in which a hunter builds an igloo in front of the camera: Nanook invents documentary, and already the staging of reality, since some scenes were re-enacted. Vertov films a city while showing his own camera and his editor, Ivens makes a poem out of a shower in Amsterdam, Wiseman goes into an American asylum and comes back with images banned from screening for twenty years, Marker tells a post-war story in still photographs.

works 4

• CinemaNanook of the NorthRobert Flaherty · 1922Shot with the Inuit of Port Harrison, now Inukjuak, the film follows a family through a year, from the summer hunt to the winter nights.Cinema
• CinemaMan with a Movie CameraЛюдина з кіноапаратомDziga Vertov · 1929A silent film of 1929 produced by the Ukrainian studio, whose credits announce that it has no script, no actors and no intertitles.Cinema
• Short filmRainRegenJoris Ivens · 1929Twelve-minute film poem about a downpour and what it does to a modern city, its cars and its crowds.Cinema
• CinemaTiticut FolliesFrederick Wiseman · 1967Shot in 16 mm black and white, without commentary or interview, the film lets the scenes unfold in front of the camera.Cinema