Regarding the real

<p><i>Regarding the real </i>develops an original approach to documentary film focusing on its aesthetic relations to visual arts such as animation assemblage photography painting and architecture. Throughout the book considers the work of figures whose preferred film language is associative and fragmentary and for whom the documentary is an endlessly open form; an unstable expressive phenomenon that cannot help but interrogate its own narratives and intentions. <br><br>Combining close analysis with cultural history the book re-assesses the influence of the modern arts in subverting structures of realism typically associated with the documentary. In the course of its discussion it charts a fascinating path that leads from Len Lye to Hiroshi Teshigahara and includes along the way figures such as Joseph Cornell Johan van der Keuken William Klein Jean-Luc Godard Jonas Mekas and Raymond Depardon.</p>