(Das Kino und der Wind und die Photographie)

Content: How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”, a “foreign homeland of reality”, where the pre-filmic, stripped of its immediacy, comes to its own right in the first place? Where in its mis-en-scène would be the line drawn to a fictional film, if drawing a line would succeed at all? These are the kind of questions this film essay on the history and aesthetics of documentary film deals with in its seven chapters.

Countries:

Germany

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

56 minutes

Year:

1991

Directors:

Hartmut Bitomsky

Crews:

Director

Writer

Cinematography

Editor

Producer