Group Work Book
Further Research Page 8
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Quotes that relate to our project.
Some artists turn from documentary to fiction because they feel it lets them come closer to the truth, their truth. Some, it would appear, turn to docu- mentary because it can make deception more plausible.
(Erik Barnouw 1993: 349)
The documentary, which holds a privileged relationship to reality, has often been the site of heated discussions about epistemological distrust and suspicion in the age of digital manipulation. Much of the existing scholarship on digital documentaries puts a similar emphasis on documentary truth and the risk of it being radically challenged by the new ontological status of digital imagery: it seeks to explain the changes that digitization might bring to the already highly problematic status of image as truth, evidence or document. Dai Vaughan, for example, notes that the increased capacities of digital sys- tems create a situation in which ‘for most people, and in most cultural con- texts, a kind of fog, a flux, will have intruded between the image and our assumptions about its origins.’ (Vaughan 1999:189).
in the hybrid film, respectively, it is the viewer who ultimately deter- mines the mode of engagement with the object at stake, sizing things up and settling the balance between fiction and reality. (McQuire 2000: 50)
