The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of
in-depth, substantive interviews with moving-image artists working
"avant-doc, that is, making films that explore the territory
between documentary and experimental cinema. The book uses the
early history of the museum habitat diorama of animal life,
specifically the Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of
Natural History, as a way of rethinking both early and modern
cinema document-and especially those recent filmmakers and films
that are devoted to providing viewers with panoramic documentations
of places and events that otherwise they might never have
opportunities to experience in person. This international
collection of 27 interviews follows on MacDonald's earlier
Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema
(Oxford, 2015). The interviews, organized panoramically within the
collection, are dense with information and insight, and readable by
specialists and non-specialists alike. In most instances, these are
the most in-depth and expansive-sometimes the first-interviews with
these filmmakers. Together, these interviews offer an engaging
panorama of the recent history and geography of cinema devoted to
documenting the world around us, as well as an in-depth look at the
challenges and accomplishments of filmmakers willing to go anywhere
on the planet (or on the internet!) to document what they believe
we need to see. MacDonald's general introduction provides an
overall context for the collection, which includes interviews with
Ron Fricke, Gustav Deutsch, Laura Poitras, Fred Wiseman, Nikolaus
Geyrhalter, Bill Morrison, Brett Story, Abbas Kiarostami, Lois
Patino, Dominic Gagnon, Erin Espelie, Yance Ford, Janet Biggs,
Carlos Adriano, Craig Johnson, Ben Russell, Betzy Bromberg, James
Benning, Maxim Pozdorovkin, along with several veterans of
Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab (and with the executive directors
of the distributor, Documentary Educational Resources, which has
served the field of independent documentary for nearly fifty
years)-each interview is introduced with MacDonald's overview of
the interviewee's life and work. The book includes filmographies
and selected bibliographies for all the filmmakers
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