I only see the Crazy Horse, and I don't know much about his another work.. Can anybody give me recommend for a newbie like me?
If you can find it, I can't stress the importance of his film "Titicut Follies." It's a jaw-dropping work of documentary genius, and the controversy surrounding it is almost as interesting as the movie itself. I sum it up pretty well in my review, http://stevethemovieman.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=reviews&action=display&thread=2250
Add potential import costs since I live in the UK, and they are even more expensive to get hold of.
I dont know how he could approach so many different subjects to be filmed comfortably. He must have a soul of a salesman, psychiatry and an artist in one package. Definitely the most versatile of all filmmakers, no?
"[Wiseman] is for modern US cinema what John Ford was for the classical era: the most ceaseless chronicler of the way society works, never neglecting the human efforts made to keep it running, yet ever so acutely aware of the weariness and contradictions that inevitably arise along the way" (Olaf Möller).
"Baisc Training" (1971), by Wiseman, is missing from the list, and it's hard to understand why. Why? (and High School II [1994])
Essene (NOT Essence) is a truly, truly, truly, madly, deeply, Savage Gardenly beautiful doc, check it out.