Sarah Polley (2012). 'Stories We Tell'
https://www.youtube.com/embed/dNsGga8SqHQ
Synopsis: "This feature documentary is an inspired, genre-twisting film directed by Oscar®-nominee Sarah Polley. Polley's playful investigation into the elusive truth buried within the contradictions of a family of storytellers paints a touching and intriguing portrait of a complex network of relatives, friends, and strangers." https://www.nfb.ca/film/stories_we_tell/ Quote: "This conflict between Sarah Polley and her father over the direction of the film and her approach to storytelling is also emblematic of wider debates in social theory, epistemology, and ontology about narratives and meaning-making as representational or performative (Mauthner 2012; Somers 1994; Thrift 2008; Winthereik and Verran 2012). For her biological father, there is a true story and it can be represented; indeed, at one point in the film, he looks into the camera and says that 'the crucial function of art is to tell the truth, to find the truth'. Polley's view coheres more closely with a performative approach to stories where' it is through narratives and narrativity that we come to know, understand, and make sense of the social world and it is through narratives and narrativity that we constitute our social identities' (Somers 1994, 606)" (Doucet, A., 2015). Further: https://u.osu.edu/english6778autumn2020/2020/11/03/truth-and-fiction-in-documentary-film-stories-we-tell/ Media: review copy of the film https://archive.org/details/stories.-we.-tell.-2012.1080p.-web-dl.-h-264-public-hd-converted https://dn721800.ca.archive.org/0/items/stories.-we.-tell.-2012.1080p.-web-dl.-h-264-public-hd-converted/Stories.We.Tell.2012.1080p.WEB-DL.H264-PublicHD-converted.ia.mp4 Bibliography: Doucet, A. (2015). 'Ontological narrativity and the performativity of the Stories We Tell Stories We Tell'. Visual Studies, 30(1), 98-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2015.996415 https://www.andreadoucet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Doucet-2015-Ontological-narrativity-and-the-performativity-of-the-Stories-We-Tell-Stories-We-Tell.pdf Anderst, L. (2013). "Memory's Chorus: Stories We Tell and Sarah Polley's Theory of Autobiography". Senses of Cinema(69). https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2013/feature-articles/memorys-chorus-stories-we-tell-and-sarah-polleys-theory-of-autobiography/ Ross McElwee (1986). "Sherman's March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love In the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation" https://www.youtube.com/embed/RnohMWYXeZ4?start=60 'Stories We Tell'. (2012). Mongrel Media. http://www.mongrelmedia.com/index.php/filmlink?id=0d8abcae-32d9-451b-87a5-effc09b500f0
