SPECULATOR
“Haunted by a crisis of faith in its authenticity, the documentary genre is continually trying to re-position itself in relation to today’s excesses of a post-truth ideology and blurred frames of realism.”
In the last many decades, we saw a rise in communication and also witnessed information being speculated. With the increase in the number of platforms for communication, came varied narratives of a single event. The idea of speculative documentary emerged as these variations. With the ideologies of speculative documentary, the very form of documentary recognised a fluidity in the approaches and practice of this form.
This platform is an investigation into contemporary works working in the realm of speculations while being rooted in reality. The explorations also lies in the representation of these varied realties.