![]() ![]() ![]() One documentary filmmaker that I have found particularly fascinating is Àlex Lora, who has a very strong and heavily accredited body of work covering a range of sensitive and niche stories. Now, I don’t usually watch documentaries, but the more that I watched, the more I realise not only how diverse and unique each one is, but how many angles one could take on a story. The only remedy for this was to delve deep into the world of documentary filmmaking and watch as many as I could get my hands on. Upon finding this definition I only became more perplexed, of course, I realise what a documentary is, but how it could be limitless in its execution and reception was beyond me. In the book Documenting the documentary by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski, it states that documentary filmmaking is “a filmmaking practice, cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception, it remained and still is, a practice without clear boundaries”. What I found just confirmed what Hubert Sauper had said. So I decided to do a bit of digging around for a definition on what Documentary is really about. ![]() Initially, this really confused me as I initially thought that it was constricting in the sense that you could only tell stories about reality. In the documentary Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary, Hubert Sauper described it as “the freest way of cinema”. Which begs the question, what is a documentary? Before delving into the details of it, I decided to watch a few documentaries to broaden my perspective on the genre. While watching it though, I noticed that there were a lot of different opinions on what a documentary really is. I recently watched Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary, which is a great film about what documentary filmmaking means to those who make it and why they do it in the first place. ![]()
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