Modern Galleries in London: a Documentary

Galleries in London

by Sofia Reyes and Jacob Dupuis

Title of this Milestone

Documentary

Introduction

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Section 1: Background

Documenting Art

Since the mid-1900s, artists have explored of documentary reference and the material trace in the gallery with increasing frequency. Strategies behind how to capture art

Types of Documentary

Every documentary has its own distinct voice. Like every speaking voice, every cinematic voice has a style or “grain” all its own that acts like a signature or fingerprint. It attests to the individuality of the filmmaker or director or, sometimes, to the determining power of a sponsor or controlling organization. Individual voices lend themselves to an auteur theory of cinema, while shared voices lend themselves to a genre theory of cinema. Genre study considers the qualities that characterize various groupings of filmmakers and films. In documentary film and video, we can identify six modes of representation that function something like sub-genres of the documentary film genre itself: poetic, expository, participatory, observational, reflexive, performative. These six modes establish a loose framework of affiliation within which individuals may work; they set up conventions that a given film may adopt; and they provide specific expectations viewers anticipate having fulfilled. Each mode possesses examples that we can identify as prototypes or mod- 99 Nichols, Intro to Documentary 8/9/01 10:19 AM Page 99 els: they seem to give exemplary expression to the most distinctive qualities of that mode.They cannot be copied, but they can be emulated as other filmmakers, in other voices, set out to represent aspects of the historical world from their own distinct perspectives.<ref>/Nichols, B. (2017). Introduction to documentary. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.<ref>
To some extent, each mode of documentary representation arises in part through a growing sense of dissatisfaction among filmmakers with a previous mode. In this sense the modes do convey some sense of a documentary history.The observational mode of representation arose, in part, from the availability of mobile 16mm cameras and magnetic tape recorders in the 1960s. Poetic documentary suddenly seemed too abstract and expository documentary too didactic when it now proved possible to film everyday events with minimal staging or intervention.

Poetic

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Example:

Expository

Describing a scenario / ‘voice of god’
Origin

goes back to the 1920s but remains highly influential

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Participatory

Filmmaker is included, and guides through the story.
Origin
Examples

Observational (Cinéma vérité)

Origin
Examples

Reflexive

Filmmaker does not use outside subjects, only explains how the film was created as it unfolds.

Writing a documentary

Brainstorming a concept
Creating a story

Planning a documentary

Production
Developing a concept into a film

Section 2: Deliverable

Selecting Galleries

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Filming Process

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Final Video Outline

Serpentine Gallery & Pavilion

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Unit London

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White Cube

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Gallery

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Conclusion

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References

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Attribution of Work

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External Links

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Image Gallery

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