Documentarians develop camera techniques to access, interpret and compose notions of truth. Dziga Vertov’s kino-pravda (“film truth”) concept was premised on the camera’s ability to reveal truth. In the 1960s, it inspired the development of both cinéma vérité (“truthful cinema”) and direct cinema, which informed Albert and David Maysles’ intimate ‘fly-on-the-wall’ style and Agnès Varda’s use of a handheld camera to create a portrait of society and herself.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
On display until
16 February 2031
ACMI: Gallery 1
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
P180636
Curatorial section
The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Minds → MM-02. Documentary 1 → MM-02-C01
Object Types
2D Object
Exhibition Prop
Photographic print/Pictorial
Materials
Graphic