Artistic Ambitions of Screen Document at the Turn of the Century

The article deals with the auteur film, a specific phenomenon in the documentary cinema of the turn of the 21st century as exemplified by the works of such outstanding masters as Chris Marker, Werner Herzog, Godfrey Reggio, Wim Wenders. The text is part of a large monograph devoted to the history of world documentary.

documentary cinema, auteur film, film essay, auteur and a screen fact, a "third way" in cinema, pictorial palette of a documentary film, monologue structure of a cinematic document, cinematic document and multimedia technologies, historical time and "inner" time