Why You Should Watch Experimental Documentaries

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Letterboxd list of every documentary referenced: https://letterboxd.com/thomasflight/list/the-beauty-and-chaos-of-experimental-documentary/

Films referenced:
Koyaanisqatsi 1982
Leviathan 2012
Sans Soleil 1983
Samsara 2011
Lessons of Darkness 1992
Cameraperson 2016
Sleep Has Her House 2017
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968
Chronicle of a Summer 1961
Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey 2016
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000
Man with a Movie Camera 1929
London 1994
Fata Morgana 1971
Labyrinth Ion 2022

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Chapters:
00:00 Cold Open
00:26 The Power of Context
01:39 The Beauty And Chaos of Experimental Documentaries
02:38 Non-Verbal Narratives
05:17 The Birth of Reality TV
06:13 Herzog's Ecstatic Truth
09:02 The Subjectivity of Image
09:50 A Genre of Trickery
11:59 A Guided Meditation
13:44 Revealing the Full Potential of Cinema
16:43 My Experimental Film

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