Saturday, August 29, 2009

"Even the first doc was Fiction" - Peter Wintonick

What is documentary film?

; Peter Wintonick - Even the first doc was Fiction!
Peter Wintonick (born 1953, Trenton, Canada) is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Montreal, Canada. A winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, former Thinker in Residence for the Premier of South Australia, prolific award winning filmmaker, he is one of Canada's best known international documentarians. He currently runs Necessary Illusions Productions along with his partner Francis Miquet. Wintonick is one of the founders of DocAgora, an event inserted into various film festivals showcasing cutting-edge digital strategies.

"I visited the Lumiere Factory in Lion, France where reportedly the first documentary was ever made, which was the workers from the Lumiere photographic factory coming out of the factory doors. So when.. with my daughter to the factory doors and started thinking about what a documentary was.
In fact the first documentary wasn't a documentary, it was a...had a camera set up outside the factory doors but the workers coming out of the Lumiere Factory have been told to go home to change into better clothing. So for me, that sort of puts it into the rim of fiction, and they had... went through, I think, three or four takes coming out of the door to get the perfect shots...again the first documentary was a fiction, and I think since then it's been a really difficult journey to really figure out what a documentary is and let alone what a good documentary is"

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