Let's begin at the beginning.
What is a documentary film? Exactly what characterizes a documentary? There are three criteria:
1. Julia Roberts is not in it.
2. If you enter a movie theatre and it is completely empty, then you can be sure that they are showing a documentary.
3. If there is one person in the audience and ...
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Artistically born in 1968, Stefan Jarl is fashioned as an individual and a cinematographer in an ambiance of social revolution and artistic examination. Conveying the principal petition of his time, the need to change the world and influenced by the emergence of a new cinema of rupture that needed to overthrow the existing structures and to create a new audience ...
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Stefan Jarl is one of those rare filmmakers who deftly balances thelocal with the international, the abstract with the concrete. Although he'swell known for his nature films, he's not just another dry documentarian; hehas a sharp eye for the delicate and mysterious in the broad, sometimesforeboding (urban and rural) landscapes he photographs, landscape that heportrays as populated with real people ...
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With
Misfits to Yuppies, whichfollows
They Gall Us Misfits, 1968, and
ADecent Life, 1979, Stefan Jarl has completed a filmproject whose unique character is not confined merely to Swedish cinema.
By concentrating on a handful of young social outcastshe has explored the modern welfare state - this term that has become synonymouswith Sweden - in three films that comprise a time ...
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When I think back to that morning, I recall that for the first twenty minutes I just sat there feeling a little anxious, almost frightened. I remember that I sat and wondered if I had done anything wrong. Had I arrived late? No, I hadn't. Was it something I'd said at the beginning of the interview? Had I begun it ...
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What do we actually mean by a "work"? A work is the long and laborious process whereby a view of life is hewn from the inert and diffuse material made available by one's "inner" and "outer" realities.
The common denominator in such a work, which is then referred to as the "style", is no less than a ceaseless, frenetic striving in ...
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Swedish director Stefan Jarl, perhaps the world's foremost environmental filmmaker, is preoccupied with questions of how the world will survive the onslaughts of technology and other forms of rampant modernization. Using both traditional documentary techniques as well as border-crossing narrative strategies, Jarl has been boldly exploring the medium since the late 1960s. Beginning with THEY CALL US MISFITS (1968), made ...
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10 YEAR OLD STEFAN JARL staggered out of his local cinema. What he had just witnessed was so shocking that it made him feel sick. On the screen where he usually watched matinees with Errol Flynn, he had seen an American newsreel about the German concentration camps, with thousands of dead bodies being bulldozed into mass graves. It is an ...
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“In filmmaking you can either start with fiction or documentary, " says JEAN-LUC GODARD. "But whichever you start with, you will inevitably find the other. "The career of Stefan Jarl, one of Sweden's leading filmmakers, has indeed covered both award winning documentary films and more recently, featurelength films. In either form, Jarl has continuously related his unique vision of man ...
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Stefan Jarl, född 18 mars 1941, dokumentärfilmare och filmregissör. Stefan Jarl är känd för att göra filmer med ett socialt engagemang. Stefan Jarl
