Hi Dave: I was thinking about the way in which I tend to experience a personal work, which could be closer to identifying with the maker or with someone who wants to make such a work. And the sense of truth that would bear on such work might better be compared to the significance of an explosion, the blossoming of a field, or the rainbow at dawn: truth as a manifestation, rather than as a mirror that gets it right, an image that is indiscernible from the reality. I have long felt a scholar's hand in the insistence on truth conceived as representation, and perhaps of equal significance to this question would be the history of the lie. We are thus moving away from a conception of language and the sign that is founded on representation, a conception that has long been identified with the image of God as something with a design for man and man as either living up to it or failing to do so, truth as a plan that is fulfilled or subverted. That is a truth that one can consider without cost, without anything at stake, a question for the professional academic. It's all introductory documentary, however. The books I am aware of include a couple that take up works the writers prefer to think about for what is unsaid in them or otherwise unsayable.
Bernie On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 5:35 PM Dave Tetzlaff <[email protected]> wrote: > Fake docs like 'No Lies' and 'Daughter Rite' don’t really question the > concept of truth in any profound way. They are also genre specific to > Cinema Verite. If anything, the problem with Daubghter Rite is that the > gimmick of the fakery subverts the theme more than it deepens it. > > So you can stage sequences with the same shooting and editing codes used > in verite. So what? > > The famous short sequence on the bridge repeated three times in Letter > from Siberia probably does more to "question the concept of 'truth in > documentary’" than all the clever fakes and fauxs put together. > > Bernie mentioned Nichols’ ‘Intro to Documentary’ as touching on the topic, > but I think his “Blurred Boundaries” is probably more relevant, though as > usual the prose is hardly user-friendly. > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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