THTRFLM 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Richard Fung, Asian Canadians, Thalassemia
16 Apr 2017
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Trinh t. minh-ha: in her documentary films and her therefore in her writing, she interrogates what constitutes a documentary. Richard fund (artist this week): his videography raises similar questions. The work revisions the documentary for: takes it apart, re-assembles and disassembles it. Trinh: talks about a practice of documentary filmmaking whereby the artist displaces the form from its settled located and creates new passages through the coexistence of moments . A form of documentary making that questions the all-persuasive idea, or posture of, objectivity and truth. Biemann resists the term documentary b/c of its embedded historical and conventional alignment with presenting information/ facts. A video essay organizes complexity and offers doubts and problems with both answers and questions. It has a literary quality; there is often text on screen; strongly theatrical. Questioning the idea of the video essay vs. the documentary. Rigid boundaries that get set up about the definition of each.
