Dramatic Conflict in Documentary. How to Build it Safely?
Dramatic Conflict in Documentary. How to Build it Safely?

Summary/Abstract: Documentaries, as any other film genre, rely on the conflict between a protagonist and the antagonistic forces in order to have a story. With the desire to make a better film, a documentary filmmaker might be tempted to seek for drama within the life of the subject with the cost of hurting him. This could raise ethical problems, especially due to the vulnerability that one has when is exposed on screen, which could transform forced questions during an interview into a traumatic experience. In this study, the author finds in existing literature links between the process of making a documentary to the one of psychoanalysis, and uses them in order to understand how filmmakers might protect their subjects while collaborating on building the story of the film.

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