Study Of Law Through Film



Study Of Law Through Film

Introduction

Errol Morris

Errol Morris was born in 1948 in Long Island, a few kilometres from the city of New York. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison also studied at Princeton and those of California-Berkeley. He began his directing career in 1978 with Gates of Heaven, a documentary about the burial of animals that Roger Ebert in his rank direct, personal list of the 10 best films ever made. In 1982, he directed Vernon, Florida, a documentary about the inhabitants of the town of Vernon (MARKOVITZ 2011, pp. 57). His stunt comes in 1988 with The Thin Blue (The Thin Blue Line) (1988) is presented as "the first film that has solved a crime." The film received seven Best Documentary and finds him ranked at the top of the list in the Washington Post's Top 100 films of the year.

After a fiction, The Dark Wind (The Dark Wind) (1991), he made A Brief History of Time, a documentary film about the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking to receive four awards including the Grand Jury Award and the Filmmakers Trophy at the Festival Sundance. In 1993, he directed Fast, Cheap & Oout of Control, a documentary film about four people passionate about animals, and Mr. Death in 2000, which focuses on the specialized methods of execution and Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter Jr.

In 2000 and 2001, Errol Morris directed two seasons of the television series "First Person" for Bravo and Independent Film Channel. The series uses the Interrotron, a modified teleprompter that allows the interviewee to talk to Errol Morris's image on a monitor while looking directly at the camera. With this process, the viewer has the feeling of being himself in front of the interviewee. Errol Morris used this method in both documentaries include The Fog of War (The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons of Robert S. McNamara) (2003) in 2003, and Standard Operating Procedure (2007).

Errol Morris also directed several commercials for Apple, Citibank, Cisco Systems, Intel, American Express, Nike and Miller Hi-Life. He won an Emmy Award in 2001 for the production of advertising "Photo booth" for PBS (MARKOVITZ 2011, pp. 57).

Errol Morris has received five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to and from the MacArthur Foundation. In 1999, the Museum of Modern Art in New York organized a retrospective of his work, and the Sundance Film Festival has devoted a special tribute in 2001. In 2007, Morris became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Errol Morris after attending the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin, Princeton University, he worked for several years as a private investigator.

He began his work as a documentary filmmaker in 1978, when he made his first documentary "Gates of Heaven" - about pet cemeteries in California - very well received by critics. In 1988, he shot "The Thin Blue Line", a documentary on the death penalty in America. In 1991, he directed "From the big bang to the ...