"His films from Titicut Follies (1967) to his most recent work, Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023) are celebrated for their complexity, narrative power and humanist gaze. Wiseman, whose extraordinary career was recognised with an honorary Academy Award in 2016, directed and produced almost 50 films, including City Hall (2020), about Boston's city government; Ex Libris (2017), about the New York Public Library; and In Jackson Heights (2015), about a neighbourhood in the New York borough of Queens."
"Making a movie is always an adventure, Wiseman said when accepting his Academy Award in 2016. I usually know nothing about the subject before I start I never start with a point of view about the subject, or a thesis that I want to prove. I also don't do any research in advance of the shooting. I usually don't know in advance what's going to be shot, or what I'm going to stumble across in any day or any moment of any day."
Frederick Wiseman died aged 96. He directed and produced almost 50 films over nearly six decades, creating a sweeping cinematic record of social institutions and ordinary human experience primarily in the United States and France. His work ranges from Titicut Follies (1967) to Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros (2023), and includes City Hall, Ex Libris and In Jackson Heights. He avoided interviews, staging, voiceovers and scores, relying on natural lighting and diegetic sound. He did no pre-shoot research, recorded hundreds of hours of footage, and used an intensive editing process that could last up to ten months. He received an honorary Academy Award in 2016.
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