Friday, April 27, 2018

Dancing With Death: The Murky Ethics Of Filming People In Life-Threatening Danger

"The Deminer" - a documentary about a Kurdish Peshmerga officer who disarms mines - "makes for nervous viewing. Each of the four detonations we see ratchets up the sense of inevitability. It's not quite a snuff movie, though haunted by a similar balefulness. What moral responsibilities do documentary-makers have when their subject is a danger to himself?"



Article source here:Arts Journal

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