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The article explores how Indian filmmakers, since the 2000s, have been exploring new aesthetic devices to rethink the principles of documentary cinema. They are using personal experiences, creative improvisation, and frameworks of fiction instead of aiming for the illusion of objectivity. Two documentaries anchor the discussion: Payal Kapadia's A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) and Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes (2022).
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This article traces the historical development of the hybrid documentary format in India, walking through the trends and diversions from the early Film Division years to the present. It reads two recent Indian documentaries against this background.
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This page is a summary of: The personal and the fictional: Aesthetic mediation in the Indian documentary, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, June 2023, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/safm_00069_1.
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