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documentaries are arguments about the world presented in film form.
they are not, have never been, about the fiction of obectivity.
people get tricked because they think that film footage documents exactly what is filmed. and in a world that involved no editing, no framing, no cropping, no assemblage maybe that would be true--but even if it was true, you as a viewer would still get no access to that objectivity when you watched the film.
its the nature of the medium.
it is better to look at a history of the documentary film to see how it came to be defined than it is to read a dictionary definition.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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