Peculiarities of Implementing a Director’s Idea in Contemporary Audiovisual Art by Ганна Чміль, Максим Вітошкін

“…The scientific novelty is that, for the first time, the approaches to documentary and fiction filmmaking are compared; the details of the phenomenon of the hybrid cinematic genre of mockumentary are established, and its psychological impact on the viewer is studied; the influence of the mockumentary genre on the formation of an audiovisual work through associative editing is outlined. …”
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Quand écrire sur les murs passe de la clandestinité au marché de l’art : Exit Through the Gift Shop, un vertige de vrai et de faux pour une histoire du street art by Marie Bouchet

“…It was made by the world-famous, though mysterious, street artist Banksy and, as its title indicates, it is characterized by a reflection on the transformation of street art, an illegal, nocturnal art form that made its way into museums and the private collections of Hollywood stars in the late 2000s. This «mockumentary», as some journalists call it, plays with blurring the limits between truth and lies, uses mise en abyme effects and reversals, and stages the shifting of power that has occurred around street art.…”
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