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“Direct cinema” is the ultimate tool at our disposal for helping people understand the language of documentary film, what it means to stage reality, and how it draws parallels with fiction while blurring the boundaries between genres.
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Even as a vibrant and dynamic form of independent cinema known as “direct,” characterized by its brevity and highly artisanal nature, continued to evolve through experimentation, the Ateliers Varan set out to train not only young filmmakers from around the world, but also to prepare them to become instructors themselves.
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On February 26, 2020, Régis Koetschet wrote this text in tribute to Séverin Blanchet, a filmmaker and instructor who died in a terrorist attack in Kabul while preparing for a Varan filmmaking workshop.
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