The Documentary

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course proposes a crossing of the history of documentary cinema since the founding figures that are Flaherty and Vertov up to contemporary trends in the cinema of the real, including the film autobiographical or memory film. By making dialogues works and words of filmmakers with writings on the documentary, it will be a question of becoming familiar with various practices but having for common project represent a reality that never gives itself "in itself". Following the chronology of the great periods documentary, we will meet the films of filmmakers as different as Grierson, Ivens, Rouch, Perrault, Marker, Wiseman, Depardon or Cabrera, whose documentary designs are sometimes divergent. On a theoretical level, this course will allow us to question the specificities of the object documentary, but also its affinities with fiction.