Abstract
This essay addresses the `documentary temptation for filmmakers more usually associated with fiction: an encounter with reality - whether rendered in minimalist, observational, cinema-verite, or conventional reportage formats - that comes on an initial, primary level without artifice, pretence, contrivance, or the industrial and aesthetic machinery of narrative cinema. The notion of such a `return to zero is critically explored with reference to directors including Jean Eustache, James Benning, Martin Scorsese, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Wim Wenders, and Stan Brakhage.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5 - 20 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | NECSUS: European journal of media studies |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |