For cinephiles, the most exciting aspect of Sundance’s nonfiction programming is the showcasing of the head-scratchers, the outliers, the genre-busters—films that seemingly came from out of nowhere, about topics that are completely outside of the media-sphere and that manage to kick-start entirely new cultural conversations.
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Docutopia #4: Fake Docs. Real Truths.
The question of “truth” in documentary is always a contentious one. From the staged sequences of the seminal early doc Nanook of the North to the work of Werner Herzog (and his interest in an “ecstatic truth”), the veracity of the real world represented onscreen is never simply or faithfully conveyed in nonfiction movies.
