Cinema & Filmmaking
Sad Song of Yellow Skin
Dir: Michael Rubbo•1970•Canada•National Film Board of Canada
Rubbo's Saigon-set film that pioneered his signature style - the filmmaker doubting his own footage on camera, unsettled by the gap between what a documentary can show and what it's actually doing there.
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The film this platform's Cinema & Filmmaking vertical is really about: a working demonstration that the ethics of the camera can be the documentary's whole plot.
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