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unusual facts about Direct Cinema



A Summer Evening with Floating di Morel

Filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios follow the group through one "summer evening" in the style of Direct Cinema.

John Spotton

Spotton was a versatile artist whose variously was a director, producer, cinematographer and editor best known for his role in developing Direct Cinema genre of documentary and in the application of those techniques in narrative fiction films, in particular Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) for which was cinematographer and editor.

Sync sound

It was called Direct Cinema and was the basis for a "New Wave" of Cinéma Vérité films, especially in Europe, made by filmmakers who abandoned the studio and went out on location to film, often with hand-held cameras.


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Klangbad: Avant-garde in the Meadows

Filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios in their film portrait the festival in the style of other Direct Cinema films, such as, Monterey Pop.