Constructions of the Real

A presentation of nonfiction and documentary filmmaking as a space for formal experimentation and creative interpretation of the world.Constructions of the Real gathers a wide range of writing from nonfiction and documentary filmmakers from around the world who undertake theoretically informed practice and think through making. The filmmakers and writers featured here explore the rich space between the academy and industry and they reflect on interrogate and explicate their filmmaking practices in relation to questions of form content and process. Engaging with current debates about the role of creative scholarship the contributors make a powerful claim for nonfiction filmmaking as a knowledge-making practice for revealing critiquing and interpreting the world.