Martin, Adrian2018-09-262018-09-262014https://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/documentary-temptation-fiction-filmmakers-non-fiction-forms/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3328This essay addresses the ‘documentary temptation’ for filmmakers more usually associated with fiction: an encounter with reality – whether rendered in minimalist, observational, cinéma-vérité, or conventional reportage formats – that comes on an initial, primary level without artifice, pretence, contrivance, or the industrial and aesthetic machinery of narrative cinema. The notion of such a ‘return to zero’ is critically explored with reference to directors including Jean Eustache, James Benning, Martin Scorsese, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Wim Wenders, and Stan Brakhage.engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 GenericAvantgardeDokumentarfilmEssayfilmReenactmentavant-gardecinéma-véritédocumentaryessay filmre-enactment90410.5117/NECSUS2014.2.MART10.25969/mediarep/151452213-0217