"Making sense of the world" - Jean-Daniel Lafond

What is documentary film?

; Jean-Daniel Lafond - Making sense of the world
Lafond was born in France during the liberation of Paris from the Nazis. He subsequently taught philosophy from 1971 "while pursuing research in audio-visual training and communications". In 1974 Lafond left France for Quebec and became a Canadian citizen in 1984. After teaching at the Université de Montréal he left the university to focus on film-making, radio and writing.
From his first marriage Lafond has two daughters Estelle and Élise, as well as two grandchildren. With his current wife Governor General Michaëlle Jean he has daughter Marie-Éden (born 98 or 99), adopted from Haiti.

"Documentary's role is to try to build a dam to hold back the waters a while and try to understand what's going on, assess it.
But to do this while the current is running.
Life doesn't stop for it.
So we try to create a tiny bit of meaning.
With documentary I think, and maybe in art in general
It's maybe in this sense that documentary is a work of art when it tries to humanize, just a bit more, humanity"