How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”, a “foreign homeland of reality”, where the pre-filmic, stripped of its immediacy, comes to its own right in the first place? Where in its mis-en-scène would be the line drawn to a fictional film, if drawing a line would succeed at all? These are the kind of questions this film essay on the history and aesthetics of documentary film deals with in its seven chapters.
Hartmut Bitomsky
Director, Writer
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Sherman's March65%
Directed by John Ford70%
McQueen74%
Public Speaking70%
Above Majestic73%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Extremis69%
The Walking Dead: The Return74%
Fuck64%
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
The Class of ‘9271%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
The Matrix Recalibrated69%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me85%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Room 23761%
A Plastic Ocean75%
