What is a “documentary” ? A singular look on the world, on reality. Any film, any work, offers a vision of the world, whether through fiction or not. Moreover, some documentaries include fiction, and vice versa. So why differentiate these two forms of cinema ? Perhaps simply to clarify what the audience should expect from the film : the proposal to live a dream in an imaginary, or the proposal to discover unknown parts of the world, as revealed by a unique look.
Selection of the day: « Holy Shroud »
Film comes, in the history of mankind, as a much more religious fact than one might have thought at first glance..André Bazin, in his article “Ontology of the photographic image” (1945), evokes in a very clear way the function of the original photograph: this photographic trace of the body of Christ on his mortuary shroud (the Holy Shroud, preserved in Turin, Italy) is used as one of the (…)
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