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85. New forms of documentary: parallels in literature and music | 1 | 54 | 01:49 |
86. Examples of audiovisual poetry | 2 | 130 | 06:54 |
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89. How we came to film Muhammad Ali's last fight | 73 | 02:32 | |
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Albert Maysles (1926-2015) known for his important documentaries on Muhammad Ali, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles, pioneered the documentary style known as Direct Cinema. He helped create techniques still widely used in modern documentary production, as well as many of the techniques used in reality TV.
Title: How we came to film Muhammad Ali's last fight
Listeners: Tamara Tracz Sara Maysles Rebekah Maysles
Tamara Tracz is a writer and filmmaker based in London.
Sara Maysles, daughter of Albert Maysles, is currently doing her BA in East Asian Studies at Columbia University, and working as an Archivist of the photographs and photographic material at Maysles Films Inc., Albert‚s film production company. She spent ten months out of two years working with Tibetan refugees at a center in Nepal, and continues to travel back and forth between America and Asia.
Rebekah Maysles, daughter of Albert Maysles, is an artist living between New York and Philadelphia. She has her own line of clothing, Blackberryrose, and co-runs the store Sodafine in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York, a vintage and handmade store that sells clothing, books and other products made by artists.
Tags: Chicago, Florida, BBC, Africa, Broadway, New York, Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes
Duration: 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Date story recorded: September 2004
Date story went live: 29 September 2010