Thom Andersen finds documentary value in fiction film, and in so doing, asks us to look at films differently. His two major documentaries explore social history through the particular lens of cinema: Red Hollywood (codirected with Noël Burch) examines social content in films by blacklisted screenwriters, and Los Angeles Plays Itself is an analysis of the city through film clips. Whether examining acknowledged masterpieces or little-known films, “Andersen simply notices things about…movies the rest of us don't” (Toronto International Film Festival). In this lecture, Andersen will discuss author and theorist Gilles Deleuze's book Cinema and its influence on his documentaries. He will focus on Deleuze's accounts of naturalism and neorealism and how they might be applied to documentary filmmaking.