The starting point of the Master's thesis is a presentation of the fundamental categories of the film medium and it's relation to actuality. As a whole, the text presents an exposition of the basic concepts for understanding the formal relationship between reality and it's film image in the context of contemporary documentary strategies. By focusing on the problem of factography as a method and fact as an object we will try to establish the conditions for a methodological prolegomena that would be able to bring about an acceptable film theoretic model. By doing this we will try to avoid positing a content heavy contribution and aim to simply recount the minimal categories of the audio-visual dispositif. Instead of a content-based analysis of the expression capacities of the film language, we will reduce the medium to its fundamental formal characteristics and give a metafilmologic analysis of the basic conceptual apparatus, trying to set out a general formal framework for an operative filmologic model. The chapters combined give a factographic approach to understanding the nature of film representation and it's functioning as a medium.
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