http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfDAIqn6KE
This short documentary film uses visual reconstruction to tell the story of the restoration of several items of furniture; although the situations are real the capturing of the footage is staged. A combination of stop motion animation and time-lapse photography is used to capture or fictionally recreate the furniture’s journey. The journey is described by the documented audio of interviews with the owners of the furniture. The fact that the audio is factually based while the video is fictionally pieced together meant that the director had complete creative freedom with the visual representation of the audio. It is in effect a fictional film attached to a factual audio documentary. That it has won at the Sundance Film Festival for best animated short even though it is pitched as a documentary is evident that the lines between fact and fiction are being straddled. The film footage is arranged in poetic mode in that it “explore(s) associations and patterns that involve temporal rhythms and spatial juxtaposition” Nichols. While the audio is captured in a participatory capacity, the interviewers questions are heard alongside that of the participants, he has himself become a “social actor” Nichols.
Nichols, Bill. Introduction to Documentary.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2001. Print.
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