Thoughts for a Documentary Movie Series

When I was I kid I loved TV. Once when my parents decided to limit access, I argued that it was an important learning tool. We learned about relationships, technology, what to do in a disaster, what was happening in the world, and how to tell time by the plot. I believed I put together a pretty compelling argument. However, that stiil was the end of the all night Friday night TV. I looked at TV as the source of knowledge about the world I lived in. Looking at TV, Movies, and fiction as documentary and learning is a common strategic approach to understanding the world. The series I'm envisioning would take the documentary which is supposed to be a representation of the real, show reality is shaped by some very familiar dramatic arcs and emotional themes. Documentaries like a photograph show more context than the main subject. Documentaries tell a story that pulls from a specific moment the recordings, images, documents, people, and film, that can be found that are not created with the POV of the now. These objects, however, are wedged into the frame of documentary. The documentary and the objects of the past locked in a battle for context.