"Video and Resistance: Against Documentary"

The article "Video and Resistance: Against Documentary" critiques documentary and how they inaccurately portray history. The article starts by discussing photography and how it shows bias even though they aren’t supposed to. This idea talked about by Susan Sontag is very relevant to what is talked about in this article. The author of this article talks about how when documentary films came onto the scene, they took these pictures and used them to support their cause. The idea of the article is that someone can take pictures and alter them, or put them in a specific context in order to support a message. The main theme is bias, and how photography and documentary’s are prime in accomplishing bias. This ultimately has an affect on its viewers because they see these pictures and clips in the context that the creator wants. This subsequently leads to a possible misperception of reality by the viewer.