Review: Siddheshwari, and the Fictional Documentary
“I’ve given up representation, and taken up fragmentation.” Robert Bresson’s film theory can be paraphrased to divide film into two types – the representational, and the non-representational. The representational is an umbrella term for when objects in the film aren’t as they appear, that is to say, they are imbued in a certain metaphorical gaze that is essential to the understanding of the film. There is an intention behind making the film, and the final product is represent