Berlin: Fiction / Non Fiction
Over the last years the papers and weblogs wrote about my albums that they capture normal life, that I use a documentary style to show the world around me, by recording day-to-day life during my travels and give it an important spot in my work. All true, I seek for fiction within the boundaries of non-fiction and document a story or feeling by putting it in a timeframe I control. Lately, more and more directors use non-fiction elements in their fiction work, with mixed results, although the experiment is extremely interesting. Borat’s Sasha Baron Cohan uses this trick as well, but plays and manipulates the ‘real’ characters in his movies. Todays New York Times features an article by Dennis Lim on pseudo documentary-style movies, taking Miguel Gomes’s “Our Beloved Month of August” as one of the examples. I watched the movie a short while ago and was intrigued by the honest presentation of the characters.
