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Insight, 2: Short Doc Shows How to Avoid All the Cliches

By David Schonauer   Tuesday October 6, 2015

A certain style of documentary filmmaking has taken over the Internet: a wispy voiceover, an emotional soundtrack, slow-mo shots of a character doing mundane tasks. Lots of silhouetting and backlighting. UK-based filmmaker Jim Archer parodied this kind of film in his recent short Phil: A Tribute to a Man. …

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