10th International Documentary Conference
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The International Documentary Conference reaches its 10th edition in
harmony with the 15th edition of It’s All True - International Documentary
Film Festival. It is a trajectory that consolidates itself as a space of
reflection in which researchers and filmmakers have the opportunity
to debate, disseminate knowledge, and access documentaries that
are often little-known.
This year the Conference focuses on the documentary developed from
archival images (and sounds) that, revisited through editing, create
new meanings. They are memories reconstructed in a new space-time
context without ever losing their historical function.
It is no coincidence that the theme was chosen for the centennial birthday
of Jay Leyda. A leap year filmmaker, Leyda had already guaranteed
his place in film history for his pioneering and unsurpassed collaboration
for the diffusion of cinema and the writings of Sergei Eisenstein.
As if that were not enough, he published in 1960 the essential volume,
“A History of Russian and Soviet Film.” But his greatest inspiration to
this Conference is due to the 1964 publication of another pioneering
study, “Films Beget Films,” dedicated to what he baptized as “compilation
films,” unsatisfied with the confusing definition “archival films.”
Almost half a century since that publication, the latest batch of documentaries
shown in this festival reaffirms the richness of the film universe
studied by Leyda. There is no better way to celebrate him in this
ephemeris than, through the debates of this Conference, reaffirming
the potency and originality of his legacy.
Maria Dora Mourão & Amir Labaki
Coordinators
10th International Documentary Conference
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