Select from one of the readings and briefly describe two points that you have taken from it. Points that excite you, something that was completely new to you.
Pawel Pawlikowski. In MacDonald, K & Cousins, M. Imagining reality, (p. 389-392). London: Faber & Faber, 1996.
Pawlikowski writes that ‘the point of making films is not to convey objective information about the world, but to show it as I see and to find a form which is relevant’. I guess making documentary can become quite abstract; to present what I believe to be with the materials I am able to access. I used to see documentary as a serious and boring topic; which is supposed to show audience the plain, dull fact. Yet Pawlikowski suggests that documentary films ‘ought to disturb and show really to be surprising, ambiguous, paradoxical, tragic, groesque beautiful…’. It inspires me with the idea that making documentary films lead filmmakers to think and interpret differently; out of the norm. Filmmakers are to show audience the world in another way they see it; not the usual common world in everyone’s point of view. Making documentary is a challenge that requires filmmakers to be creative in an approach to draw audiences attention to the subject which they have seen, in a new way without changing the reality.