Summary: | At festivals and exhibitions of documentaries there is a growing doubtabout what fits or not in this category, among other reasons because of the increasingcontamination of the documentary by the fiction, to the point of many works displayed inthese events are visibly works of fiction. Actually, what is happening now is an expansionof the concept of documentary and, in some sense also, it’s overcoming. To make itpossible for us to have an idea of how complex the documentary field has become, we raisesome of the most prominent “deviations” that this audiovisual format has experienced inthe last few years: the hybrid documentary, the false documentary, the metadocumentary,the sound documentary, the documentary animation and the machinima documentary.
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