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Tim: Often when you’re talking about making a documentary, the first thing anyone’s going to ask you is what your access is like. The Unfilmables is the opposite of the conventional way you’d want to do a documentary. We’re going for all the stories where access is almost impossible. It allows you to always be subverting conventional documentary form.You’re aiming to create something completely fresh then?Yeah, I think that’s the really interesting thing about The Unfilmables, which we’re creating through The Space Open Call. The core of the project is to tell stories that can’t be told in a conventional fashion.Why is there a need to challenge conventional storytelling though?With any media, we assume there’s a right, normal way of doing it, but that “normal” way actually contains a lot of assumptions about who the subject is and what the true way of conveying a reality is. Especially with something like a documentary, you kind of think, “well you stick a camera at it and what the camera is recording, that’s real right?” But it’s not, it’s a construction in itself: the way you frame something, the lens you use etc. All these things change the meaning of what’s being presented. The same goes for journalism.
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