by Nguyễn Minh Tiến
How can one cinematic production ever be called “a documentary”? In recent years, this debate on a concrete definition of “documentary”, which is merely impossible to reach, has constantly helped filmmakers as well as the audience, especially film awards jurors (since they are also a type of audience), redefine their points of view on how “actual realities” were presented in those documentary films (Aufderheide 2 and Minh-Ha 89). Even when given the same topic, filmmakers could still create various types of documentaries based on their artistic approaches to the “reality resources” (Minh-Ha 85) stored not only in archival centers but also in their daily lives.
Nevertheless, it would not be fully applicable to Vietnamese documentaries. Even though the Vietnamese film industry produced more documentaries than feature films (Thi DocNet Southeast Asia) there has not been a significant increase in international acknowledgement and recognition. Hence, one major aspect that influences...
How can one cinematic production ever be called “a documentary”? In recent years, this debate on a concrete definition of “documentary”, which is merely impossible to reach, has constantly helped filmmakers as well as the audience, especially film awards jurors (since they are also a type of audience), redefine their points of view on how “actual realities” were presented in those documentary films (Aufderheide 2 and Minh-Ha 89). Even when given the same topic, filmmakers could still create various types of documentaries based on their artistic approaches to the “reality resources” (Minh-Ha 85) stored not only in archival centers but also in their daily lives.
Nevertheless, it would not be fully applicable to Vietnamese documentaries. Even though the Vietnamese film industry produced more documentaries than feature films (Thi DocNet Southeast Asia) there has not been a significant increase in international acknowledgement and recognition. Hence, one major aspect that influences...
- 9/1/2022
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
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