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The
Last Documentary
Der Letzte Dokumentarfilm
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GERMANY
/ 1999 / German, English, Dutch / Color / 35mm (1:1.37) /65 min
Director, Script: Daniel D. Sponsel, Jan Sebening
Photography: Anne de Clercq
Editing: Ulrike Tortora
Music: Bernd Friedmann
Sound: Giel van Geloven
Narration: Daniel D. Sponsel
Production Company, Source: Hochschule für Fernsehen und
Film Mumchen
Abt. III Film und Fernsehspiel, Frankenthaler StraBe23, 81539 Munchen,
GERMANY
Phone:49-89-68957-330 / Fax:49-89-68957-339
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Daniel
D. Sponsel
Born in Hamburg in 1964. Trained as an electrician. Studied visual
communication in Kassel and Hamburg. Since 1992 has been a student
at the Film Academy (HFF) in Munich.
Jan Sebening
Born in Freiburg in 1967. Degree in physics from the Technical University
of Munich. Studied at the Film Academy (HFF) in Munich and since 1995
has been a student at the NFTVA in Amsterdam. |
This intellectual film, a documentary on documentaries, is bound to
please both documentary fans - if such people exist - and those unhappy
souls who are slaves to the visual.
With an open point of departure that renounces fixed, conventional
definitions of the genre, The Last Documentary moves across
black - and - white and color formats, film sizes, and film, digital,
and Webcam images, putting each of the objects it scrutinizes into
a relative perspective. Such agility establishes it comfortably as
a work, sophisticated in its grasp of media theory, that can lead
the way for us into the next century.
Appearing in the film are Johan van der Keuken (on seeing and being
seen), Richard Leacock (on objectivity and participation), Werner
Herzog (on poetry and truth), Werner Penzel (on curiosity and reportage),
Klaus Wildenhahn (on the adventure of the quotidian), Nicolas Humbert
(on the unknown and the intimate), and Volker Koepp (on the participation
and poetry.) [Fukushima
Yukio] |
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