Sonny Bunch of The Washington Times, who interviewed me a while back on the subject of film grain and its place in video representations of cinema, has been blogging from the SIlverdocs documentary film festival. Where he met up with one of the giants of American documentaries, and put the grain question to him. The answer Bunch got might surprise you, and it just goes to show you can never really tell with these things. Find out here.
Against the grain
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I’m not surprised by Maysles’ response. It’s what I would expect from a documentarian, accustomed to working in the low-budget arena, seeking to enhance the “quality” and approximation to reality any way he can.
Narrative filmmakers who usually work in mainstream, big-budget productions, on the other hand, would definitely be more conscious about pursuing the deliberate aesthetic associated with grain.