On the Practice of Creative Documentary - the What, How and Why of documentary
Students and young filmmakers are invited to engage in an interactive session with Sameera Jain. The understanding of documentary and the forms it can inhabit has been severely constrained for various reasons particularly in pedagogy – resulting in a strange anomaly between the practice of documentary (that has an immense range and richness) and the learning/teaching of it. At the Creative Documentary course we try to make a small move to start amending that. And so we look at documentary as being capable of much more than is commonly imagined and suggest that the constraints just may be of our own making. The session explores what the word documentary means or could mean. We discuss the nature of the ‘document’, modes and choices in representation, documentary tropes and the interpretative qualities inherent in documentary through discussion and film clips. |
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