CHAPTER 5
Documentaries
The documentarist has a passion for what he finds in images and sounds—which always seems to him more meaningful than anything he can invent. Unlike the fiction artist, he is dedicated to not inventing. It is in the selecting and arranging his findings that he expresses himself; these choices are, in effect, comments. And whether he adopts the stance of observer, or chronicler, or whatever, he cannot escape his subjectivity. He presents his version of the world.
Documentaries are produced to capture fragments of actuality, the creative treatment of actuality, the interpretation of recorded images and sounds, and the selection of ...
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