Truth or Dare

Art and Documentary

Gail Pearce, Cahal McLaughlin, Gail Pearce, Cahal McLaughlin

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9781841501758
• eBook ISBN: 9781841509976
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
• Subtopic: Películas y vídeos

The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form—but they have also drawn criticism that documentaries now promote entertainment at the expense of truth. Truth or Dare examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with imagination and experimental contemporary art. An experienced group of practitioners, artists, and theorists here question this binary, and the idea of documentary itself, in a cross-disciplinary volume that will force us to reconsider how competing interests shape filmmaking. 

 

 

 

 

INDEX

9/11, camera phone images of, 79

Acconci, Vito, 79

accountability, towards subjects, 35–36

‘accurate’ representation, and evocation, 18–19

Across Borders lecture series (Wood, Tate Modern), 101–102

aesthetic experience, healing force of, 107–108

aesthetics of documentary, 15–16, 59–60, 107–117

anti-aesthetic mode, 16

anti-sensual aesthetic in documentary, 60

formal beauty and social comment, 83–84

affective connection, between artist and subject, 22–23

‘amateur’, concept of in documentary filmmaking, 105

analytical function of documentary, 15–16

animated sequences, in documentary, 19–20, 85

anti-aesthetic mode, 16

anti-sensual aesthetic, 60

architectural space, 70, 74, 76, 88

archival footage, in documentary, 22

archive, documentary as, 49–50, 76, 113

art and documentary, relationship between, 59–61, 76, 89, 96

art criticism, and video, 38

art documentaries, 31, 33

asymptotic relationship, of documentary to commercial culture, 17–18

audience involvement

as collaborators, 91

creating documentaries, 34

in editing material, 42

audiences

for Bata-ville (Pope and Guthrie), 95

and exhibition curation, 100–101

expectations of, 107

for live projects, 91–92

for public debates and interviews, 107

for ‘Reprocessing Reality’ exhibition, 97–99, 100, 101

social mobilization, 16–17

solitary viewing experiences on Web, 99–100

television, 100

and viewing spaces, 91–103

aura, and authenticity, 80

auterism in documentary, 114

authority of documentary, 79

authorship, and ownership, 37

‘autobiographical fiction’, 86

autobiographical film, 18–19, 22, 85–87, 89

autobiographies, experimental feminist, 85–88

Balfour, Jane, 39

Barthes, Roland, 14, 22, 77, 105

Bata-ville (Pope and Guthrie), 91–97, 92, 93,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements and Thanks
• Introduction
• Away from Copying: The Art of Documentary Practice
• Freedoms and Accountabilities
• Documentary, History and Reality: Reflections on Jean Chamoun’s Tal al-Zaatar
• Dancing to Different Tunes: Ethical Differences in Approaches to Factual Film-making
• Collaborations and Technologies
• Is It Art?
• Viewing Spaces and Audiences
• Vietnam/USA
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index