Frederick Wiseman Records Film Research

Frederick wiseman is one of the world directly the important in the field of film director and one of the representative. He is keen on all kinds of public institutions, adhering to the "on" the principle, from the real life to reveal problems and thinking. Wiseman’s documentary film, though the selection of different shooting "institutions", but also can be summarized as social problems from the topic, personal care, life, thinking and record four parts in the performing arts; The formation of his creative ideas not only affected by the growth of his personal experience, also affected by the Italian new realism movie movement; On the writing techniques, wiseman clever use of metaphor and the accumulation of "impression" technique, continuous improvement "watching" from the documentary aesthetics. In he is good at editing link mining subject. Wiseman early documentary works, how to "examine" the Angle of shooting all kinds of "body", reveals the theme are also critical inclination, but after the mid-1990- s, his documentary is turning to the theme of "moderate". The early 1990 s, China’s documentary filmmaker and wiseman begin to have contact, and is affected by its style, then this batch of Chinese documentary filmmaker also have created some "direct cinema" the characteristics of the documentary.Today, Wiseman nearly fifty years of documentary photography career continued, his achievements in the field of documentary, let a person admire, but he was so persistent pursuit of art spirit is more worthy of study and admiration.