Frederick Wiseman's work is "devoted primarily to exploring American institutions".
22 Facts About Frederick Wiseman
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Frederick Wiseman has been called "one of the most important and original filmmakers working today".
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Frederick Wiseman earned a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College in 1951, and a Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1954.
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Frederick Wiseman spent 1954 to 1956 serving in the US Army during the Korean War.
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Frederick Wiseman spent a few years in Paris, France, before returning to the United States, where he took a job teaching law at the Boston University Institute of Law and Medicine.
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Frederick Wiseman then started documentary filmmaking, and has won numerous film awards as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships.
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The first feature-length film Frederick Wiseman produced was The Cool World.
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Frederick Wiseman has both produced and directed all of his films since.
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Frederick Wiseman's films are often described as in the observational mode, which has its roots in direct cinema, but Frederick Wiseman dislikes the term:.
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Frederick Wiseman has been known to call his films "Reality Fictions".
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In 2003, Frederick Wiseman received the Dan David Prize for his films.
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In spring 2012, Frederick Wiseman actively took part in the three-month exposition of the Whitney Biennial.
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In 2016, Frederick Wiseman received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Frederick Wiseman's films are, in his view, elaborations of a personal experience and not ideologically objective portraits of his subjects.
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In interviews, Frederick Wiseman has emphasized that his films are not and cannot be unbiased.
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Frederick Wiseman spends the bulk of the production period editing the material, trying to find a rhythm to make a movie.
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Every Frederick Wiseman film has a dramatic structure, though not necessarily a narrative arc; his films rarely have what could be considered a distinct climax and conclusion.
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Nevertheless, Frederick Wiseman feels that drama is a crucial element for his films to "work as movies".
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The "rhythm and structure" of Frederick Wiseman's films pull the viewer into the position and perspective of the subject.
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Frederick Wiseman openly admits to manipulating his source material to create dramatic structure, and indeed insists that it is necessary to "make a movie":.
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Frederick Wiseman has said that the structure of his films is important to the overall message:.
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Frederick Wiseman has said that he does not "feel any need to document [his] experience" and that he feels that such reflexive elements in films are vain.