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Kim Longinotto - Coggle Diagram
Kim Longinotto
Kim
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- voice of god: she is never seen; no direct address
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- fly on the wall/ cinema verity - 'truthful cinema'
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'Sisters in Law'
- mise-en-scene: sense of realism, allowing us to visit their society
- sound: voice of god (you can't see her), mainly diegetic but she has included non-diegetic songs
- performance: focusing on the people like a fly on the wall, watching everything unfold (verity cinema), subject matter issues w treatment of women
- editing: hand-held camera, long takes heightening realism, added subtitles, straight-cuts to scenes, unfolding
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key quotes
Guardian - 'I want you to feel like you're there, standing where I am and going through the emotional experience'
Guardian - 'the outsiders, the people struggling. if women have no rights or power, I want to make a
film on them'
'nothing is ever set up' her work is about finding characters that the audience will identify with - 'you can make this jump into someone else's experience'
As the eyes of her audience, she doesn't like to zoom or pan. she says she doesn't want her films to have conclusions but to raise questions
in Amy voice over interviews and archival footage are used in the grammy awards sequence to present Amy as a tragic figure who was unable to find happiness, even during the most joyful period in her life. to a certain extent, this reflects Kim Longinottos interest in tragic female figures.