Rehearsing Reality — pushing the boundaries of documentary viewing

Abstract

A review of Rehearsing Reality, a project that creatively pushes the boundaries of the experience of documentary viewing. Nina Simões' audiovisual experiment, which she terms docufragmentary, takes John Grierson's original definition of the documentary as the ‘creative use of actuality’ and pushes this further to mean not only the creativity involved in producing the film but also in viewing it.

Keywords:

• documentary
• interactivity
• Brazil