Once, no serious documentary could be without its authoritative voiceover in perfect English. But film-makers are now rejecting the whole idea. Are social media and post-truth politics to blame?
Eerie … Ascension, about rampant capitalism in China, not only had no voiceover – it had no interviews either.Eerie … Ascension, about rampant capitalism in China, not only had no voiceover – it had no interviews either.Last modified on Wed 13 Jul 2022 19.56 BSTt the 1990 Academy Awards, the nominations for documentary featured a surprising number of actors.
that the film-makers “knew from the beginning that we didn’t want to have narration”. Instead, the plan was to tell the story of the biggest prison riot in history through interviews with those who were there. Even andidn’t make the final cut because “he was talking about what he had read [while other interviewees] were talking about what they saw and heard and felt”.
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