New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory, by Dara Waldron
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For Dara Waldron, the creation and critical reception of what he calls “new nonfiction film” is an exercise in recovery from the systemic repression of the creative within the practice, famously defined by John Grierson as “the creative treatment of actuality” (13). Grierson himself admitted that his definition of documentary cinema was inadequate; more to Waldron’s point, what became known as the Griersonian documentary, both under his tutelage and beyond, privileges the functional and informational over the poetic and the possible. For Grierson, poetic elements must be in service of the representation of the world and the task of the documentary is to identify reality and posit solutions to improve the particular within the whole. Waldron looks to the margins of documentary to make the case for a practice of cinema that is vested in reality, not as utilitarian representation, but through encounters of the real intersecting with the possible. This proposition is in response to two related, but contradictory forces. The first being the global fog of neoliberalism which seeks to monetise and instrumentalise all aspects of everyday life, implicitly questioning the legitimacy of the public commons.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".