A Camera That Goes Anywhere

Description

A Camera That Goes Anywhere
Jane Weiner
UK
2015
(60')

A Camera That Goes Anywhere reveals the untold story of how five visionary filmmakers—Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker, Robert Drew, Terence Macartney-Filgate, and Albert Maysles—joined forces in the late 1950s to create a revolutionary “new cinematic language” that would forever transform documentary filmmaking.

The film follows their groundbreaking collaboration on Primary (1960), which captured the Democratic primary contest in Wisconsin between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey using handheld cameras and synchronized sound from portable tape recorders. Their five-day shoot gave rise to American cinéma vérité, but the path from conception to recognition was far from easy: initially rejected by American networks, the film found acclaim in France thanks to Henri Langlois at the Cinémathèque française.

Language:
Original Version with Subtitles
Format:
DCP