Chapter 4- Complexity flux and webs of connection 

Finally a reading that is not as complicated. I actually enjoyed reading this, this would be the perfect piece for our individual essay. A very good summary of what we’ve learnt in class so far.

Frankham discuss the poetic approach to documentary which is frequently characterised by an openness of form. The use of montage that already extends beyond purely narrative connection and in light of its potential to grant access to range of perspective. The montage technic is similar to the list.

Below are more examples on what a list could do

-The application of a list-like structure has facilitated space for paths of connection to be reimagined thereby creating more complex and nuanced interpretations of the material.

-The list can motivate individual processes of synthesis and provide the means for documentary to embrace fragmentation, provisionality and complexity

-The list can also inspire thought that follows the structure of memory, impulse and flases of association. The structure of the list acts as mnemonic device that helps us to recall what we have already seen in the linear presentation of material.

-With the list , the possibilities for structure are not necessarily occurring in a linear manner.

-The list becomes a way of reshuffling the world, almost putting into practice Tesauro’s invitation to accumulate properties in order to bring out new relationships between distant things and in any case to cast doubt in those accepted by commonsense ( Eco, 2009)

-Each item on the list can trigger a sense of memory, an imagining , a concurrence or a questioning

The outcome of poetic approach- The audience is freer to choose and be more active in the process of reading the work- possibilities for new metaphors, understanding and concepts.