Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm
Reihe: Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary
Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm
Reihe: Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary
ISBN: 978-0-231-20276-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press
In place of the conventional documentary, Godmilow advocates for a “postrealist” cinema. Instead of offering the faux empathy and sentimental spectacle of mainstream documentaries, postrealist nonfiction films are acts of resistance. They are experimental, interventionist, performative, and transformative. Godmilow demonstrates how a film can produce meaningful, useful experience by forcefully challenging ways of knowing and how viewers come to understand the world. She considers her own career as a filmmaker as well as the formal and political strategies of artists such as Luis Buñuel, Georges Franju, Harun Farocki, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Rithy Panh, and other directors. Both manifesto and guidebook, Kill the Documentary proposes provocative new ways of making and watching films.