Caught Live: Body Cams, Surveillance Videos, and the New Era of Found Footage
Documentaries like The Perfect Neighbor and 2000 Meters to Andriivka elevate the found footage genre via body-cams and surveillance videos.
In the 1950s and ’60s, the world of non-fiction cinema was shaped by cinéma vérité, a mode whereby filmmakers like D.A. Pennebaker, Haskell Wexler, Jean Rouch, and Michel Brault used new technology to place the camera, and thus the viewer, in the midst of the situation being captured.
This approach freed documentary from traditional conventions and leaned into an observational mode of cinema to capture everyday life.
The advent of smaller, handheld devices with synchronous sound made this new wave of filmmaking possible without the need for ungainly, bulbous celluloid equipment.
Author's summary: New tech elevates documentary filmmaking.
More News
- The next phase of AI and digital integration
- Dramatic video shows grain bin collapse in Illinois
- Women In Music Roll Of Honour 2025: Portia Clarke-Millanaise, BET/Aisle Forty Four
- Africa’s Best Energy Choice Is Geothermal
- Colorado election officials say they don’t expect big changes after sudden sale of Dominion Voting Systems
- Kennedy clan gathers to say goodbye to Joan Kennedy, last of old guard
- Service contract for Montelago geothermal power project in the Philippines terminated
- Scientists obtain detailed maps of earthquake-triggering high-pressure subsurface fluids – Physics World
- 5 Lions Reborn Slot Review & Demo | Gambling.com
- Stalagmites adhere to a single mathematical rule, scientists discover