FILM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Photorealism, Film Stock, Richard Leacock
9 Feb 2016
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Cardinal question: the truth is foundational to documentary (way more than fiction, distance between documentary and fiction films), documentary claims to have some privilege access to truth that. Truth and authoritativeness the fiction film doesn"t. The impression of truthfulness": affective and cognitive leap, foundations of faith, belief, and trust, truth as a permanent quest rather than something that is. Quest vs possession possessed once and for all (permanent elusiveness = exciting) Between reality and our representation of it (reality vs thought -> The images that are presented are almost misread by our brain as being mobile when they are really still, but edited. Also the image is an image, not an actual object. By definition, film is the past tense (what about live streaming?) that gives the impression of present tense despite time skips and what not. The 50s and 60s and resurgence of truth discourse.
