Liberating the Camera
Director Jane Weiner
Countries France, United States
Duration 63 min
Synopsis
In 1972, Jane Weiner began making a film about her mentor Richard Leacock who, during his long filmmaking career, was instrumental in many technical and aesthetic innovations, such as the development of portable synchronous-sound equipment that launched the Direct Cinema movement. In conversations with five prominent cineastes, Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker, Robert Drew, Terence Macartney-Filgate and Albert Maysles, Jane uses her intimate knowledge of this era in cinema history to piece together how they all came to work together on many films, including PRIMARY (1960), America’s first cinema vérité documentary.
In 1972, Jane Weiner began making a film about her mentor Richard Leacock who, during his long filmmaking career, was instrumental in many technical and aesthetic innovations, such as the development of portable synchronous-sound equipment that launched the Direct Cinema movement. In conversations with five prominent cineastes, Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker, Robert Drew, Terence Macartney-Filgate and Albert Maysles, Jane uses her intimate knowledge of this era in cinema history to piece together how they all came to work together on many films, including PRIMARY (1960), America’s first cinema vérité documentary.