Nonfics

Nonfics

Art of the Real’s Sprawling Program Will Change the Way You See Nonfiction Cinema

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Christopher Campbell
Apr 09, 2014
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There is no such thing as purely nonfiction cinema. The corollary is, of course, that there is no such thing as purely fiction cinema either. Every film ever made has elements of both. The theoretical arguments here are a complicated bundle of ideas for another time, but the basic point is this: the line we have drawn between narrative and documentary d…

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