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A Documentary...?
Dokument...?
2001 · Film · documentary · 31 min
Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska
When Malgorzata Szumowska was an elementary school student, she had a diary in which her friends, acquaintances and loved ones wrote in. Now she has a movie camera. So she decided to ask her friends to repeat this old entry in a new form - on film. The attempts to record their statements become the material from which Szumowska creates a documentary film that is - paradoxically - in a way directed against the documentary.
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Documentary excellent
In a sense, it has been for a long time.
With Linux, there's often a good clean way to do a thing, and then there are weird hacks.
On Windows, it often starts with weird hacks, as Microsoft is further enclosing its ecosystem.
(I use Windows mostly for gaming and VR, and still have to constantly fiddle with the system to keep it working on a basic level, sad face emoji. Who would've thunk that merely playing a 8K European documentary in VR would require configuring DirectShow filters found on GitHub.)
Same, I'm nocturnal and a naturally anxious person. If I lie in bed doing nothing, I will just think about things that make me more anxious.
A nice podcast or documentary will focus my thoughts on whatever I'm listening to and help me fall asleep easier.
This writing is as unhelpful as telling an obese person simply to exercise and eat less. Everyone is different; I'm one of those people who were made to protect the tribe while they sleep. I'm naturally nocturnal, and the silence of the night makes me more alert. Turning on a not-so-interesting documentary or political commentary on YouTube actually helps me relax and fall asleep.
"- I am physically the most disgusting form of existence that ever lived, I am so ugly people vomit when they merely see me. I can't even buy a prostitute no matter how much I would pay.
- I have a condition which makes me physically unable to bear seeing or hearing just 1 second of ads.
- I am immune to propaganda and see the world in undistorted way, resulting in previous point.
- My favorite algorithm is most likely Hough transform.
- It physically hurts me when someone says "the reason ... is because" or "just because ... doesn't mean".
- I immediately turn off any documentary where a woman starts talking as a "scientist"."
Ah, I miss personal webpages.
Reminds me of an article which said that positive side of autism is that autists are impossible to brainwash, and that they are the only ones to speak up in a nazi society -- because they ignore the social cues.
If a Private Equity group decided to buy them out and restructure, it would make a fascinating case study. If some radical restructuring does happen, I hope they bring along a film crew to make a documentary in the process.
That was a documentary.
Its absurd to claim that nothing was done to stop it from happening, if that was the case then thing would have been much worse. It was brought under control as effectively as it is possible when the riots are happening at communal level.
Have you not seen riots happen in London few years ago, or the black lives matter, or so many others in the past. To use you own argument, why did they not stop it immediately? Because it takes some time and effort to control it when large populations are involved.
And nobody is asking to cover all the history, Nuance can be covered with small hints and by giving little bit of background. Otherwise People who dont know India's history only see what they see in the documentary and go on making up their mind.
Plus BBC is funded by UK government's so its essentially a mouthpiece for them. So Independent journalism is not really expected from them anyways.
Ah but you didn't go. You just watched a documentary about it,I see. I know people that went and lived there back in the day.
The 'Documentary' section of most streaming sites is filled with an abundance of garbage psudeoscience, environmental fantasy, and identity politics masqurading as progress. I sincerely wish companies would have some ethical stake to vet the information presented to their viewers as fact, or at least advise when the science is shaky at best. I would wager a majority of these films on Nflx and Amzn are based on easily falsifiable claims.
Just popped into my mind as I recently saw a documentary about him.
My strategy would be to constantly change "stimulus" to keep my self active and awake. I'd try reading for a bit, then of course I start to go foggy and you get a headache from focusing on the text. Then I'd play video games for a bit, then watch a film, then a documentary, then go for a walk, then do some work.
I found switching activities every 45 minutes or so kept me sufficiently engaged.
Download as in "cache this title within this app for viewing in an environment where Internet connectivity doesn't work well yet" is very different from download as in "here's an .mp4/.webm file for you to hold onto for ever--have fun taking backups and figuring out which third party player can handle the subtitles.
Fun story: Not very long ago, I bought a copy of a documentary using the latter model.
Another person with whom I was going to watch the documentary had visited their site and seen what movie services it was on. I trusted that info at first without checking the documentary's own site. I got very annoyed about the movie services having the title geoblocked in my country (even when a movie service had presence here and in a neighboring country and the rights for both countries are typically sold as a bundle and the neighboring country had it available!).
Then I looked at the site of the documentary myself. And indeed, for the price of the Blu-Ray version, I could buy a full-HD .mp4 without DRM to download.
So I paid and downloaded the .mp4 plus .mp4s for all the Blu-Ray extras. And I downloaded a .srt file for the subtitles.
The Linux box I had connected to my TV couldn't do full HD well in software but could via VAAPI. However, the player that supported VAAPI was supposed to support .srt but didn't actually support at least this .srt file.
In the end, we watched it by pluggin in a more performant Windows laptop doing the whole thing in software.
Conclusion: This is what we always said we wanted. However, when it was there, I didn't expect it to be there and assumed I had to find the title on one of the big-name services instead of navigating to the documentary's own site. The UX of getting stuff to work was less smooth than with the locked-down streaming services.
What an absurd question? Popular magazines didn't kill museums. Documentaries didn't kill museums. If anything they increase interest, and allow you to "visit" the museum more.
People who want to see the actual artifacts will still go to museums, I presume in the same volume. Some small number may even become excited to go because they'd like to see something they learned about in VR (that they hadn't already become excited by via a documentary).
If there's someone who can't be bothered going to a museum they are unlikely to be affected either way by VR.
I've seen quite a few cases like this online, where people on various forums have faked their own death. Sometimes it's for attention (someone literally faked that they were dying of cancer to get people to make Youtube videos of a game they were working on), sometimes it's just wanting to leave the community (someone else faked their death in a car accident to stop working on a project that others were pressuring them about).
Either way, the linked article was an interesting read. Least partly cause it felt like watching a documentary with the wildlife or civilisation replaced by forum/online game goers.
I'd watch a well made documentary. I'd probably help kickstart one.
Great defense of TED. It's not a MOOC, and it's not a book, and it's not a documentary.
The one caveat is that by extending their brand, they are giving fuel to their detractors. If you say, "Well anyone can get a TEDx license," then you are admitting to brand dilution. (The same way high end car companies dilute their brands with low end models)
If you don't want to hear from anyone who isn't a pedantic, highly literate writer in English, that's your prerogative.
I, however, wish my Web had more input from illiterate people. There are a lot of them -- the majority of the world, an overwhelming majority when you restrict yourself to the English language. They have lives, thoughts, and stories too. And if it weren't for recorded music, oral historians, and the occasional documentary they'd be completely invisible in our media.
Of course, the average comment thread on the web is a terrible way to interact with the literate and the illiterate alike. ;)