Nichol’s documentary modes:
Poetic (soviet montage theory)
Expository (film, news, TV)
Participatory (interaction, as oppose to observation, unobtrusively)
Observational (D.A Pennhaker)
Reflexive (meta) (considering quality) (embracing process)
Performative (engages the story-teller to the story, but constructs subjective truths)
Jane + Louise & the toxic camera (what is it to be surveying?)
Hildur Guðnadóttir (Chenobryl, Joker)
-Ethnographic Film (non fiction, historically dealing with non-western ideology/civilisations) & Ethnographic interviews/writing (never fully objective, never fully neutral)
-Ethics and Honour (consider everything)
-“instead of binary thought, multiply levels of possibility
-“doesn’t argue a position, in as much as it presents an observation for consideration”, explores the way people answer questions
-frame of reference (inherent bias), a paradox
-performative aesthetics+technologies (mediation)
-idiosyncratic
-situated/partial
-renders affects+sensations
-diverse voices
-protagonists, narrative tendencies (material)
-consistent part of larger ecologies