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doco
/ ˈdɒkəʊ /
Example Sentences
"Why was I not in the doco? I don’t really know, to be honest."
Longley added: "I didn’t expect to be a heavy feature in it because they hadn’t interviewed me, but I did expect to be in it more than I was. I would like to have been in the doco so that Australian kids saw that there was an Australian in that team doing that thing."
The thesis of the doco is laid out in its opening few minutes: Looby, now 80 years old, is one of Australia’s most significant painters, with an individual, iconoclastic style, a one-time teenage prodigy who would go on to win the Sulman, Blake and Archibald prizes, create and sell significant amounts of work, and have key paintings in the collections of Australia’s national galleries.
In the Hitchen’s doco were scenes of what looked like demonic possession: naked people screaming, crying, swearing, hitting each other and hugging each other, a more hardcore, violent version of what I had done at camp.
This year that means a program comprised of Dolphinman Battles the Sex Lobsters, a short that is very much what it says on the tin; a new Todd Solondz anthology Wiener-Dog; Oscar-nominated doco on writer James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro; Sundance hit Patti Cake$, led by Aussie breakout Danielle Macdonald; Sylvio, starring a talking gorilla; It’s Not Just Me, which follows four West Australians transitioning from female to male.
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