Frederick Wiseman (Born January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ...1 January 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...1930 in Boston redirects here. ...Boston, Massachusetts The word Usa has more than one meaning: U.S.A. _ The United States of America Usa, Oita _ A city in Japan This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...USA) is a A documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. ...Documentary The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...filmmaker. He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a For information on the type of fish called Lawyer, see the article on Burbot. ...lawyer, a fact that has influenced his style and choice of subjects ever since. He is deeply committed to justice, but instead of seeking it in reference to the Law (a loanword from Danish_ Norwegian lov), in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow...law, he tries to find its roots in everyday interactions between people and institutions. Wiseman is not an expose film maker in the sense of someone who has a defined agenda based on a specific injustice that they plan to expose. In a Wiseman movie you never know what is going to happen next or what will be said in the following scene. Wiseman does not interview his subjects, nor does he narrate or comment on what happens. It is left up to you to arrive at an understanding of what you have seen and heard in the For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of...movie. This philosophy of filmmaking is often referred to as 'Direct Cinema.' In making you responsible for your own understanding, Wiseman has promulgated a powerful vision of a social justice through his filmmaking.

Filmography

• Titicut Follies (1967)
• Highschool (U.S. 1969)
• Missile (1987)
• Zoo (1993)
• Public Housing (1997)
• The Garden (2005)

Listing is incomplete. For more information, see film notes at the Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/resources/film-notes/index.html