Yesterday I participated in the HRAFF–Human Rights Art and Film Festival, as a volunteer, in ACMI.
So excited to join this kind of volunteer job, as a volunteer, we have some welfare, like enjoying films for free. So at that night, I saw a film named CHECK IT, I don’t remember well who is the director. Whatever…
It was a documentary film, talking about African American people in United States. Most African American people in the film, they didn’t go to uni, even some haven’t finish their high school. They don’t have shinning life, or childhood, growing up in violent environment, but it doesn’t mean some of them won’t to change their situation, for better life and a real and good job to feed themselves. This film focus on few people, expressing their changing life and challenges.
I am learning documentary, thinking back what ideology I learned from uni, the ontology, I have a question that I know that listing, relationships, “things” and “stuff”, but what if the thing we gonna do or film is a story itself? How we take story as “things”?