Stories
Documentary
Real material, cut until a stranger can follow it without being lied to.
It meets journalism, oral history, and the editing craft of knowing what to leave out.
Documentary makers are often advocates and skeptics in the same afternoon.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside documentary reads “real material, cut with care.” It tends to meet journalism, oral history, and film photography.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
The Library Book, Susan Orlean. Read it beside documentary: A library as a public room full of private obsessions.