I’ve hardly ever seen a film that has complete balance within it. There are exceptions like Rashomon by Kurosawa.
Werner Herzog
Nonfiction and the programmatic
I’ve been asking myself what programmatic (or programmed) texts add to nonfiction (aside from educational games). In drafting up the possibilities with programmatic texts they seem to me to be (or at least start with):
- manipulation of source nonfictional texts
- generation of nonfictional texts
- interrogation of nonfictional texts
- additional meaning through kinetic aspects of the text (textual behaviour)
- interaction with the text