"Video and Resistance: Against Documentary"

The article “Video and Resistance: Against Documentary” calls out the fact that written representations are no longer efficient for people’s understanding. Visuals have become necessary to understand history, but documentaries fail at providing such accounts. They present bias and fictional stories and events in a project that is taken as factual. The article mentions a few works in particular that exhibit the awfulness behind documentaries by saying these works have no factual integrity.
This article relates to “The Image World” by Susan Sontag. In her writing, Sontag opens with the line “Reality has always been interpreted through the reports given by images.” Both show understanding of the importance of visuals but neither support the way in which they are carried out. “Video and Resistance: Against Documentary” states that documentaries misrepresent the truth and Sontag says that photographs do not give the whole story of a situation rather a picture is only an extension of a subject.