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ethnographic film
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Search complete. 2 mentions across 2 episodes found for "ethnographic film".
Oct 29, 2026
EP076 - Life and Death w/ Brett Morgen
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29:06Brett MorgenGUEST
And is that truth or is it not? And so what I thought watching it, this was when I was in college and watching it, I was like, well, if the camera was there, it would have impacted the way he would have been doing his work.
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29:19Brett MorgenGUEST
So in a way, this is achieving what a writer named Carl Heider refers to in a book called Ethnographic Film as a higher truth.
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29:28Brett MorgenGUEST
That if the camera is actually creates a sort of false truth.
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29:32Brett MorgenGUEST
impression of reality.
Ava DuVernay & Team on 14th
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26:47Ava DuVernayGUEST
You saw it too.
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26:48Paul GarnesGUEST
I, I, I took a class, uh, in college called Ethnographic Films, and I, uh, what you're doing sounds very much like that.
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26:55Paul GarnesGUEST
Um, it, it, it's interesting 'cause, you know, we make narrative movies too, and, and you're correct.
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27:01Paul GarnesGUEST
I mean, narrative movies have a, a very specific point of view in how you present the characters, how you tell the story, what you choose to show.