Session 4 – The Uncertainty Principle: Political Engagement and the Documentary in an Expanded Field

This session explores the changing face of documentary, as those strategies and formal structures migrate from the cinema into galleries and museums. Just as the modes of production change, so do the particulars of how a film is viewed. Expanding on some of the general formal concerns addressed in the Cinematic Enters the Gallery roundtable, this session focuses the discussion on the place non-fiction practice has within the context of contemporary art. What changes from the black box of a cinema, to its simulacrum recreated within the white box of a gallery? Is it the audience? The systems of power? The modes of address? And how do these changes and differences effect the conversation and political engagement of these works?




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