Why such a category as documentary at all in film? Why the convenient split between Lumière and Méliès, between Eisenstein and Vertov? From a fiction film, people usually expect a good story, whereas from a documentary film, they expect information and truth. In my films, the "battleground" for these very notions is probably situated in the "documentary". However, I see them cutting across several boundaries - those of fiction, documentary as well as experimental film (yet another category), and thereby questioning both their interiority and exteriority to these categories.
after an interview of Trinh T. Minh-ha with Laleen Jayamane & & Anne Rutherford