09.03.2009

daniel.clarke

 The Center for Social Media have released 7 page document detailing best practices for use of copyright material. They've done it in part as a response to a perceived culture of restriction leading film-makers to be unnecessarily cautious about the material they are able to use. 

The suggested situations in which Fair Use applies are:

1. Social political or cultural critique.

2. Quotation of popular culture to illustrate a point

3. Capturing copyrighted material in the process of filming something else.

4 Using copyrighted material in Historical sequence.

video | documentary | history

24.02.2009

christopher.slaughter

That video of the paper airplane made me think more about Sam Fuller... and a documentary on him from 1996.  Naturally, some kind soul has posted it (in six parts) on YouTube.  God bless the Intertubes.

Hollywood | YouTube | film noir | directors | documentary | movies

26.01.2009

mark.erder

I just watched two amazing documentaries: 'Man on Wire' and 'Little Dieter Needs to Fly.'  Both are amazing enough but watching them back to back makes for an extra-special experience.

One is about obsession, passion and heaven; the other is about obsession, passion and hell.

And both are procedurals that plot the path to heaven and away from hell. 

werner herzog | documentary | hell | heaven

05.01.2009

christopher.slaughter

"Objectified is a documentary about industrial design; it’s about the manufactured objects we surround ourselves with, and the people who make them. On an average day, each of us uses hundreds of objects."

This film is made by Gary Hutswit, the director of Helvetica, and opens in th Spring of 2009.

documentary | interesting | fun | video | Cool Websites