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THE FILM-ESSAY - HISTORY OF CINEMATIC SUBJECTIVITY

1930

1940

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2014

I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another

OTOLITH GROUP

2012

Man With a Movie Camera

DZIGA VERTOV

1929

À Propos de Nice

JEAN VIGO

1930

Listen to Britain

HUMPHREY JENNINGS

1942

Night and Fog

ALAIN RESNAIS

1955

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

JEAN-LUC GODARD

1968

Notes Towards an African Orestes

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

1970

Images of the World and the Inscription of War

HARUN FAROCKI

1988

London

PATRICK KEILLER

1994

São Paulo, Sinfonia e Cacofonia

JEAN-CLAUDE BERNADET

1995

The Five Obstructions

LARS VON TRIER

2004

Dogville

LARS VON TRIER

2004

Sans Soleil

CHRIS MARKER

1988

F For Fake

ORSON WELLES

1977

Fahrenheit 9/11

MICHAEL MOORE

2004

Annie Hall

WOODY ALLEN

1977

A Spy in the House That Ruth Built

VANALYNE GREEN

1989

Festen

THOMAS VINTERBERG

1998

Los Angeles Plays Itself

THOM ANDERSEN

1930

FILMS

CONFERENCES AND

PUBLICATIONS

The Film Essay: a New Form of Documentary Film

HANS RICHTER

1940

The Birth of the New Avant-Garde

ALEXANDER ASTRUC

1948

Nonfiction Film, Theory and Criticism

RICHARD MERAN BARSAM

1976

In Search of the Centaur: the Essay Film

PHILIP LOPATE

1992

Representing Reality

BILL NICHOLS

1991

The Personal Camera

LAURA FRASCAROLI

2009

Chris Marker

NORA ALTER

2006

Der Essayfilm:Ästhetik und Aktualität

SVEN KRAMER AND THOMAS TODE

2011

The Essay Film, From Montagne to Marker

TIMOTHY CORRIGAN

2011

Thinking Images

DAVID MONTEIRO

2012

Format 3

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION

2013

conferences

publications

Blurred Boundaris

BILL NICHOLS

1994

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