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Charlotte Zwerin
Charlotte Zwerin [(born Charlotte Mitchell)] was an American documentary film director and editor [known for her work concerning artists and musicians]. However, she is most known for her editing contributions to the cinéma vérité documentaries, Salesman (1969), Gimme Shelter (1970) and Running Fence (1978) in which she was given co-director credits along with two cinéma vérité pioneers, Albert and David Maysles.[1]
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Biography
Charlotte Zwerin was born on August 15, 1931 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. [She studied at Wayne State University and established a film club there], which sparked her interest in documentary filmmaking.[2] After this, she moved to New York City and found a job with Drew Associates who were the pioneers of direct cinema in America.[3] Here she met and began to work with Albert and David Maysles.[3] Zwerin would go on to edit and co-direct three of the canonical cinéma vérité documentaries with the Maysles brothers: Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Running Fence. [TExtbook] Zwerin died of lung cancer in January 2004, at the age of 72.[4]
Career
Charlotte Zwerin was an editor who worked on some of the most significant films of the cinéma vérité mode of documentary practice including, Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Running Fence. Salesman is concerned with
As well, Zwerin directed several other documentaries with subjects such as Thelonious Monk, the BRILLIANT AND ECCENTRIC JAZZ PIANIST, the Armenian abstract painter Arshile Gorky, and the magnificent Ella Fitzgerald, among many others. [NY times article]
Filmography
Meet Marlon Brando (1966) (uncredited)
Salesman (1968)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
Running Fence (1977)
De Kooning on de Kooning
References
- ^ Nichols, Bill (2010). Introduction to Documentary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. EDIT.
- ^ "Charlotte Zwerin: 1931-2004". www.jazzhouse.org. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
- ^ a b "Charlotte Zwerin: Some Remarkable Talents | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
- ^ "Charlotte Zwerin: 1931-2004". International Documentary Association. Retrieved 2016-02-07.