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March 19 – 30, 2025

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IS THERE STILL ‘NO SUCH THING AS DOCUMENTARY’?

14:10 - 14:30 Wednesday 20th Mar 2024 / 20 min

In 1990, Trinh T. Minh-ha declared, “There is no such thing as documentary.” In the thirty years that have passed, this prophecy and its suspicion of the genre have found prominence at the forefront of documentary theory and practice. Yet today, the documentary tradition is more visible than ever. What can we make of this apparent contradiction?

Speakers

Erika Balsom

Researcher and critic. Reader in Film Studies at King's College London.