Category Archives: Documentary

Tales of a Video Blogger ebook

by michaelc Posted on 14 March 2013

Many thanks to RE.FRAMING ACTIVISM for publishing the ebook ‘Tales of a Video Blogger’, a collection of my recent writing about activist film-making. Download your copy here:http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/activistmedia/2013/03/free-e-book-tales-of-a-video-blogger-by-michael-chanan/ Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print … Continue reading →

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Remembering Stanley Forman

by michaelc Posted on 9 February 2013

For left film culture in Britain, Stanley Forman, who has died at the age of 91, was the archive man. His company, ETV, held a unique library of left-wing documentaries which amounted to the history of the twentieth century from … Continue reading →

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Screening at the House of Commons

by michaelc Posted on 16 October 2012

‘Secret City‘, the film I’ve made with Lee Salter about the City of London Corporation, received a preview screening at the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. This is more or less what Lee and I said to introduce it. … Continue reading →

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A Short Film About Money

by michaelc Posted on 28 September 2012

Won’t solve your money problems, but it might make you think about why you’ve got them. ‘A Short Film About Money’ is a spin-off from a longer film I’ve been making with Lee Salter, ‘Secret City’, which launches soon. ‘Secret … Continue reading →

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A Documentary Festival in Cyprus

by michaelc Posted on 15 September 2012

A long time, I know, since the last post. That’s because I’ve been hard at work on a new film, to be unveiled soon. Back in August, however, I had a welcome break with a visit to Cyprus for the … Continue reading →

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“I Like Students’

by michaelc Posted on 17 June 2012

or ‘Me gustan los estudiantes’: Mario Handler at St Andrews The Uruguayan documentarist Mario Handler came to St Andrews recently for a symposium revisiting New Latin American Cinema of the 60s through the Uruguayan case. The event was able organised by … Continue reading →

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Aspects of the documentary image

by michaelc Posted on 29 January 2012

After my rather long silence, an uncharacteristically short post. We gathered, on an unusually warm day for January, at the London College of Communication in Elephant & Castle for the third seminar convened by the Artists’ Moving Image Research Network, … Continue reading →

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The camera that supposedly changed the world

by michaelc Posted on 3 August 2011

The recent BBC documentary ‘The Camera That Changed the World’, directed by Mandy Chang, about the birth of direct cinema at the start of the 1960s, was a solidly crafted and conventionally narrated television documentary containing a good deal of … Continue reading →

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Forgotten early Soviet sound films

by michaelc Posted on 8 June 2011

Three Forgotten Early Soviet Sound Films on the Electrification of the USSR (This is a revised version of the talk I gave at the BFI Southbank on 1st June 2011 as part of the Soviet season, to introduce Macheret’s Men … Continue reading →

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Postgrads in Glasgow

by michaelc Posted on 23 May 2011

Following the KCL Postgrad Film Studies Conference that I wrote about last week, I’ve been up to Glasgow for a similar event. In fact, two. The first was a workshop on documentary as research, with a focus on human rights … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: Documentary

Tales of a Video Blogger ebook

Remembering Stanley Forman

Screening at the House of Commons

A Short Film About Money

A Documentary Festival in Cyprus

“I Like Students’

Aspects of the documentary image

The camera that supposedly changed the world

Forgotten early Soviet sound films

Postgrads in Glasgow

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