Essays on Documentary

The documentary Babies follows four children and their journey from newborns to one-year olds. These babies come from different cultures and distant countries, Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia, Mari from Tokyo, Japan, Bayar from Bayanchandmani Mongolia, and Hattie from San Francisco, California. The film shows how…

Introduction It has now been eight years since the Oscar-winning film ‘The Cove’ sent the small, isolated community of Taiji into the midst of an ever-growing controversial debate surrounding the slaughter of 2047 dolphins and the captivity of 58 dolphins for human entertainment over the…

The Cove documentary works to give logistical evidence against the corrupt practices in Taiji. The background information on what occurs in Taiji that the public isn’t aware of, is explored and explained much further as the film progresses. It is argued that little action has…

Introduction From training dolphins for the famous American TV Series, Flipper, to now being an activist for these mammals, Ric O’Barry has been playing a major role in trying to uncover a dirty secret that is performed by the Japanese fishermen. “The Cove”, an Oscar-winning…

Introduction The prime focus of this essay is to discuss the re-enactments of documentaries. For the purpose of analysis, two documentaries were selected that includes The Cove (2009) which is directed by Louis Psihoyos and Bowling for Columbine (2002) directed by one of the most…

A specific ideological understanding and declaration of solidarity with the goal of radical social-political transformation. “We realized that the important thing was not the film itself but that which the film provoked” – Fernado Solanas (1969). Social documentaries excel at telling complex societal problems and…

New discoveries are necessary in instigating one’s personal growth, as they often lead to reformed perceptions, in turn encouraging the development of new values and beliefs. Simon Nasht’s documentary Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History (2004) and Tim Winton’s short, coming of age story…

The documentary, “Yellow is Forbidden” published to be view at the Vancouver Film Festival on October 10, 2018 director Pietra Brettkelly featured a Chinese fashion designer, Guo Pei demonstrates her journey and challenges she had overcome to host her first ever runway show in Paris….

Roger Scruton’s documentary “Why Beauty Matters” evaluates post-modernist art culture through a perspective that assumes art has become a sort of “standardised degradation”. It can be assumed Scruton believes postmodernism is a ‘cult of ugliness’; arguing the importance of transcendental nature of beauty. Despite these…

We may have not practiced our undergrad degree, but I feel proud that you were able to find your niche in the BPO industry and doing excellently at it! As I was reading your reply to Arden’s comment, I was reminded that our undergrad course…