Dark Days Marc Singer (2000)
Dark Days is a documentary about a group of homeless people living in a New York train tunnel. We follow the day-to-day lives of the small group as we see them encounter different problems; some life threatening, some trivial. All in all, this film is successful in creating an emotional response from the audience as the film is so personal and not at all subjective.
The camera work in the film, is very 'gritty'. The camera operator uses an on-camera light which shows the audience that the makers of the film are very welcome, especially when they also see how the group and relaxed with the crew and how open they are to talk about their experiences. As most of the documentary is filmed in the dark, there is a lot of grain on the image, this ties in with the subject as the place where the group is living is unclean and their lifestyle seems very dirty.
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