Using handheld cameras and no scripts, he his colleagues took an innovative approach they called direct cinema to observe and document ordinary lives
Terence Macartney-Filgate was a renowned cinematographer, film director, educator and aviator. He was a pillar of Canadian filmmaking, having made his mark in an extraordinarily creative burst at the National Film Board of Canada, and worked with leading filmmakers in Canada and the United States for decades. “His greatest lesson was film ethics in his treatment of subjects and crew members,” visual researcher Elizabeth Klinck said.
During the Second World War, Mr. Macartney-Filgate enlisted in the Royal Air Force. That gave him his first taste of Canada, where he was trained. He eventually saw combat on bombers flying missions from bases in Italy. Mr. Macartney-Filgate, along with colleagues such as Wolf Koenig and Michel Brault, added “poetry” to documentary in their close observation of ordinary lives, according to Marc Glassman, editor of POV, Canada’s magazine of documentary filmmaking, and an adjunct professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Mr. Glassman is currently writing a history of the NFB.but Mr. Macartney-Filgate and his colleagues preferred the term “direct cinema.” Mr.
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