Documentary Filmmaker: Adam Curtis
Directed: It Felt Like A Kiss (2009), Bitter Lake (2015), HyperNormalisation (2016).
(Adam Curtis, 61)
The reason I chose to talk about the exceptional documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis is due to the effects his documentaries had on me. I've only seen two (Hypernormalisation & Bitter Lake), but personally I have never been so enthralled with a documentary before, bear in mind that these aren't short documentaries either.
He touches on subject matter that is extremely sensitive and topical, opens jaw dropping perspectives and revealing daunting facts about the world that we live in.
(HyperNormalisation - Released 2016)
What I took from both of them visually and applied to my own work was its usage of archive footage, its narration and visuals combining to give greater emphasise on the subject matter.
Documentaries to me, are things that make you want to pause it whilst you watch, and go off for 5 minutes and do some real hardcore researching and digging. The purpose of them is to inform, engage and leave you to question certain things, the narrative of his documentaries tend to be objective, but definitely have you thinking about the morality of the situation.
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