The essay film tends to transgress the traditional boundaries of the
non-fictional, i.e. by including fictional elements and recreated/staged
material, often also autobiographical aspects, and makes use of the whole
spectrum of documentary techniques, including reflexivity, and is, as its
name implies, to some extent an experiment/experimental in cutting across
generic boundaries. It tends to combine the objective with the subjective,
the personal. Traditionally cited examples include Alain Resnais' NIGHT AND
FOG (1955), Godfrey Reggio's KOYAANITSQATSI (1982) and Chris Marker's SANS
SOLEIL (1982). But of course there are hundreds of examples. And perhaps
this is the way more and more "documentaries" are being made today?
Henry
on 28.4.2006 9:06 Uhr, Nicola Hopkins at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> How can we define the 'essay' film and how can it be considered different to
> documentary?
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