The World Through the Screen - Documentary Filmmaking

Harvard FAS

We carry cameras in our pockets every day yet seldom pause to consider what it means to encounter the world through their lens. We accumulate moving images into vast, often unseen personal archives, hidden away in clouds, but rarely do we return to them to examine the forms of meaning and lived experience they produce. Documentary cinema offers a way to re-engage with this material: to explore the world through film, attune ourselves to the unpredictability of reality, translate it into…