components are gathered, sorted and assembled according to a type of logic of categorical process
“the temporal ordering of elements is less important than the comparisons and associations the user is invited to make between the documentary’s elements”- Kate Nash
mosaic struction (Nichols)- “a form where the whole thus tends toward poetry an al-at-once slice throguh an institutional matrix re-presented in time rather than narrative
spaces between and around list elements give room for the audience to argue what is given
the audience interprets their own meanings with exploratory intention
lists can inspire thought that follows the structure of memory, impulse and flashes of association ( a mnemonic device)
we have come to understand montage as a complex system of linking discrete objects
montages simultaneously collect, create and understand
documentaries can be regarded (Ross Gibson) as a process that grants you access to a clearer sense of the governing codes of an emerging actuality
Phillip Rosen- the key role of the documentarian is to transform raw artefacts of the world into meaningful constructions
organisation of complexity
allows for critical engagement and experiential knowing