Moving images have always been a valuable document about the moment in
which they were produced. Whether fabulous, invented stories, or recorded
situations of the historical world, cinema, as well as any form of
representation, keeps traces of its time. With regard to documentary cinema,
crises, national or international commotions were responsible for the emergence
of new trends in the recording of reality or led certain filmmakers to acquire
their credentials to occupy a place in the history of nonfiction film. In the
first case, as an example, we have the “Kino Pravda” emerging in the
post-revolution environment of 1917 in the Soviet Union; or the “British
Documentary Film Movement” that promoted the British empire in the late 1920s
and 30s. Then, we find Leni Riefensthal and the propaganda of the Nazi regime
in Germany (1933-1945), or Pare Lorentz in the United States and his engagement
in Frank D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s. In these cases, politics and
ideology were evident drivers of the nominated movements.
Nowadays, we have seen a wave of political conservatism on a planetary
level and a geopolitical rearrangement involving the main global economies.
This thematic dossier of DOC On-line has as its guiding thread the
relations between the nonfiction film and the movements, whatever they may be,
arising from political or ideological choices that occurred or are underway at
the end of the second decade of the 21st century.
Deadline: May 31, 2020. Acceptance notifications: July 2020.
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