Category: Blog Posts
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Facing Discomfort: The Self- Conclusive Nature of I Didn’t See You There
Reid Davenport’s I Didn’t See You There takes the viewer through a day in his life as a disabled man, portraying his experience of living with a disability. Rather than framing his daily challenges as obstacles to be overcome, Davenport’s approach is both simple and profound—he simply positions himself as a filmmaker, filming his life.…
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Voice in Documentaries
“The issue, finally, becomes one of judgement, and thereby a subjective matter: an opinion of someone whose mind has taken in all that information, that documentation, and then given it the shape of sentences, of words used, with all their suggestive possibilities.” (Coles, p. 21) King Coal by Elaine McMillion Sheldon seems to me, at…