The Cinema and the Wind and Photography

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1991

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Director

Hartmut Bitomsky

Writer

Hartmut Bitomsky

Producer

Werner Dütsch

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0332180