INPUT / … / … / The Naked Truth: Challenging Faction: How does the combination of documentary elements and fiction add up to a final result?

In this session we explore the different ways to integrate archive material, testimonials and other ‘real stuff’ in three very different fiction productions. Or should we even call them fiction? Maybe the term faction is a more adequate cover. But let’s not stick to semantic details. More important issues to discuss are: Does the topic dictate the choices for specific documentary and fictional lements? Are these choices motivated by moral responsibilities? What is the role of editing on the overall impact? Would the same effect have been achieved by either making a pure documentary or a 100 percent fiction production?