Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary Movie Review
Boy, was I looking forward to this film! “38 of the greatest names in documentary talking about every aspect of their creative process,” wrote one piece of promotional material. And that is true, CAPTURING REALITY: The Art of Documentary is precisely that. Who would have thought the end result would be so dry? I certainly didn’t.
Each filmmaker is given the opportunity to discuss virtually every aspect of documentary filmmaking from why they became filmmakers to the importance of sound. As a filmmaker myself, I was looking forward to drinking from this ocean of knowledge and gleaning insights and perspectives that would impact my own work and help me to appreciate the stellar accomplishments of these artists. Instead, I found myself coming to the slow realization that many artists (including most of those on camera here) are better at doing than explaining how to do.
