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IS THERE STILL ‘NO SUCH THING AS DOCUMENTARY’?

14:10 – 14:30 Wednesday 20.03, Social Cinema, Kunsthal Charlottenborg

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 in the forefront of documentary theory and practice. Yet today, the documentary tradition is more visible than ever. What we can make of this apparent contradiction?

Erika Balsom

Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London, UK

Erika Balsom is a Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London. She is the author of “After Uniqueness” (2017) and “TEN SKIES” (2021). Her work appears in Cinema Scope. She co-curated “Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines” (2021–22) and “No Master Territories” (2022-23). Balsom received the Philip Leverhulme Prize and the Katherine Singer Kovacs essay award in 2018.