The Maysles Brothers: Direct Cinema

Duration: 60

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Facets Multimedia

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: David and Albert Maysles, brothers with a long history of making creative cinema, are interviewed on a late 1960's television show with the former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, Jack Kroll. They articulate their methodology for film making using their concept of "direct cinema." Integrates concepts of film making with a discussion on the utility of filming direct reality without direction or manipulation, focusing on the Maysles' newest film "The Salesman", which follows a group of Irish Bible salesmen in Boston neighborhoods. Combines artful debate with a substantive criticism around the idea of there being "nothing between you and the subject."