This documentary used footage, experts, witnesses, reenactments, and graphics in a very effective manner. The former Seaworld employees started their accounts with their interest in working there then went from there. …

I appreciate the decision to have us watch this piece. I’d never heard about Jened nor did I know about the interaction between the disability rights movement, the civil rights movement, and The Black Panthers. There were many points throughout the film that were important and valuable and the archival…

For this piece, the filmmaker did a very good job of setting the tone with stylistic choices like music, color scheme, font, and the way he presented information. Throughout this documentary, I found myself wondering why it was titled as it was. I’m pretty familiar with the tale but had…

This documentary complemented last week’s The Great Hack beautifully. The following of the main subject, in this case, Snowden, seemed similar to the latter’s. Both Kaiser and Snowden acted as whistleblowers to expose predatory use of private data but their differences persist. Snowden preceded Kaiser and is the household name…

This documentary did a wonderful job of working with tone and using scene and shot choice to get information to an audience and make it form an opinion on the subject matter. This beautiful manipulation fell right in line with the work’s coverage on data rights and how privacy violations…

I think my favorite part about Ava DuVernay’s 13th is the fact that some white speakers were brought on because of their important insight into the topic at hand and still managed to expose themselves for their dehumanization of Black people by referring to them as “blacks” in the twenty-first…

My only thoughts on this are as follows. Black people do not get picturesque views of Italian streets in the documentaries about them, that they would never have, when they are tried for murder. People of color and Black people do not get any of this *gestures vaguely*; they do…

Unrelated to the title but relevant to me was some footage from New York where Kirsten Johnson and crew are crossing a busy street. Johnson almost steps into traffic trying to film her subject, Jacques Derrida, a French philosopher. In response, he says, “she sees everything around her and she’s…