Original Documentaries… Vehkalahti
A quote from DOX Magazine 74 (www.edn.dk), page 16, from a discussion between Neelima Mathur and Iikka Vehkalahti on “Universality vs Diversity”. Vehkalahti from YLE Finland writes:
… perhaps it is that in the genre of cinéma vérité – as creative and wonderful as it is, too often the camera just records what takes place in front of the camera (of course I know that every shot, angle, direction is already a choice and at best a personal choice) but still, somehow, there is the idea of non-interference, to be objective in the obvious subjectivity.
But in how many films do you feel and see that the creator of this documentary sees the world differently, very differently, in a way that nobody else is seeing? … I visited MOMA in NY and went to those exhibition halls, where you have old masters of modern art. How recognisable they all are – Léger, Kandinsky, Picasso etc. Or even films of Aki Kaurismaki? I need to see only a litle and I know. How many documentary films have that kind of originality?
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