Get Real
LAUNCHED BY THE FRENCH FILMMAKER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST JEAN ROUCH with Jean-Michel Arnold in 1978 and hosted by the Centre Pompidou for the last four decades, “Cinéma du Réel” is an ideal vantage point from which to survey the landscape of contemporary documentary. Even amid the intensified skepticism about audiovisual media’s relationship to the real, and the proliferation of what’s defined as “documentary” now, this showcase for nonfiction filmbroadly conceivedsustains the form’s disciplinary roots in ethnography and sociology even as it explores its outer limits in experimental film