Archív pre budúcnosť. Súčasný slovenský nonfiction film ako prax produkcie poznania
An archive for the future. Contemporary Slovak nonfiction film as a knowledge-generating practivce

Summary/Abstract: Regardless of the increasingly frequent hybridization processes of fiction andnonfiction, and of the analysis of medial propaganda, the function of nonfiction ordocumentary films as epistemic media is still dominant. What is mostly emphasized,however, is the learning function of nonfiction for the viewers. The fact that documentary films are always mainly subjective testimonies about this reality howeverhard they try to act from the position of an epistemic authority, is mostly forgotten.Yet, the responsibility for the statement and for the dedication to the subject of thefilmed research is where the subjectivity of the testimony of the documentary makerlies. This responsibility is also projected into the forms in which the documentaryfilmmakers create an archive of the present for the future. This study deals with thereflection of the post-November history of Slovakia as the latest layer of communication memory, closely tied to the formation of the modern identity of the country.Its goal is to examine what image of the present is created by nonfiction films forthe future. In other words, what rhetoric and narrative tropes, or what conspirationstructures, are used by the documentary makers to construct knowledge about thesocio-political reality.

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