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Docufiction (often understood as docudrama) is a neologism which refers to a cinematographic work in a genre mixing fiction and documentary. This term appeared at the beginning of the 20th century and is commonly used in several languages. Docudrama is wrongly used as a synonym of docufiction, confusing drama with fiction. The use of docufiction is common in television, consisting in illustrating facts or events with actors. The term docudrama is apter in this sense. The term docufiction is sometimes used to refer to literary journalism (creative nonfiction). The term involves a way of making films already practised by such authors as Robert Flaherty, one of the fathers of documentary, and Jean Rouch, in the 20th century.
It also implicates the concept that fiction and documentary are basic genres, due to the ontological status of the filmed image as photography: the double is shown as being the same, as representation and reality. Being both, docufiction is a hybrid genre, arising ethical problems concerning truth.
In the domain of visual anthropology, the innovating role of Jean Rouch allows one to consider him as the father of a subgenre called ethnofiction (See : Jean Rouch and the Genesis of Ethnofiction

– thesis by Brian Quist (Long Island University).

First docufictions by country

1926 – Moana by Robert Flaherty, USA
1930 – Maria do Mar by Leitão de Barros, Portugal
1948 – La Terra Trema by Luchino Visconti, Italy
1958 – La pyramide humaine by Jean Rouch
1963 – Pour la suite du monde (Of Whales, the Moon and Men) by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault, Canada
1990 – Close-up (film) by Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
2002 – City of God (film) by Fernando Meirelles, Brazil (?)

Other well-known docufictions

1931 : Tabu (film) by Robert Flaherty and F.W. Murnau

1934 : Man of Aran by Robert Flaherty

1945 : Ala-Arriba! (film) by Leitão de Barros

1948 : Louisiana Story by Robert Flaherty

1959 : Shadows (film) by John Cassavetes

1960 : Moi, un noir, by Jean Rouch, France

1967 : David Holzman's Diary by Jim McBride

1972 : Trevico-Torino (viaggio nel Fiat-Nam), by Ettore Scola

1974 : Orderers, by Michel BraultFurther Information

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