The Art of Observing Life

Over twenty years the Russian documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya interviewed pioneers of American documentaries such as Richard Leacock Robert and Anne Drew Albert Maysles DA Pennebaker Jonas Mekas among others In long conversations they discuss the elaboration of titles that are now fundamental to the genres world history commenting on the introduction of new light and portable cameras that allowed the advent of Cinema Verite in addition to sharing the fundamentals and principles of the art of capturing life The sum of these parts corresponds to a singular opportunity of reencounter with the thinking of these masters even those that have already passed away