Documentaries, old and new, with stills and notes for students, makers, and observers of documentary film and video. ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Monday, July 27, 2009
Kazuo Hara
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987) by Kazuo Hara is a riveting film that has a lot to teach about making documentaries. Students who see one section (representative stills, above) ask about the ethics of the film crew continuing to shoot after the film's protagonist, Kenzo Okuzaki, jumps up to fight the man he's interviewing. Was violence needed to provoke a confession?