Belgesel Sinemacı Bir Parrhesiastes Olabilir mi? “Hakikati Söylemek” Üzerinden Türkiye’de Belgesel Sinema Tarihine Bir Bakış
Can Documentary Filmmakers Be a Parrhesiastes? A Glance of Documentary Film History in Turkey via Notion of “Telling the Truth”

Summary/Abstract: Parrhesia is a verbal activity on "telling the truth" among people Ancient Greek. The member who performs parrhesia is called parrhesiastes. The purpose of the parrhesia activity is to make criticism in an asymmetrical relationship from the bottom to up. The one who knows and tells the truth does this act as a duty in the public sphere and takes some risks. Michel Foucault examines these concepts based on a seminar series in the frame of Ancient Greek texts and focuses on telling the truth much more than the truth itself. Foucault attempts to find out the answers how important that telling the truth, knowing the truth, and having people who know the truth for the society. Parrhesia and parrhesiastes can also be considered as a concept for documentary film field. Because the basic concepts of the appearance and existence of documentary cinema are also "real" and "truth". In this context, can documentary filmmakers be considered as "a truth-teller"? In this paper, documentary cinema in Turkey is examined with its own periods and also questioned the relationship between truth, telling the truth and documentary cinema within the framework of this concept. It is possible to say that when documentary filmmakers close to present day, they also near parrhesia. This paper aims to not discuss on what is the truth, it tries to deal with the practice of telling the truth in documentary cinema, just like Foucault.

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