A Matter of Fiction. 2008.
A Matter of Fiction (3:50 minutes) is a study of truth in traditional documentary film. The documentary genre often abuts visual content with talking heads which renders the material as authoritative or unwaveringly true. Editing in often seamless in the documentary and editorial cuts to professional opinions and narration go unnoticed.
Fiction takes a recognizable model of documentary film - the historical documentary - and alters it to demonstrate the vulnerability of supposedly reputable information. The result places historical scholars in a web of fictional banter about their own lives and indiscretions. Commentary that was utilized in an authoritative context becomes banal.
This project was born out of the artist's own work in documentary and her acknowledgement of the vulnerability of truth. Editing - even in documentary film - can easily misrepresent opinion, identity, and context. The video below is an excerpt from the project.
Fiction takes a recognizable model of documentary film - the historical documentary - and alters it to demonstrate the vulnerability of supposedly reputable information. The result places historical scholars in a web of fictional banter about their own lives and indiscretions. Commentary that was utilized in an authoritative context becomes banal.
This project was born out of the artist's own work in documentary and her acknowledgement of the vulnerability of truth. Editing - even in documentary film - can easily misrepresent opinion, identity, and context. The video below is an excerpt from the project.
