Nonfiction moving-image based works are characterized by truth claims that are often brought into question through reflexive strategies, employed in film and related media since their advents. Using the examples of Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică, Massoud Bakhshi and numerous others, the study that this presentation derives from explores the tension between the two mentioned elements, arguing that reflexivity’s commonality has not robbed the feature of its potentially subversive political dimension.

Nenad Jovanović is Associate Professor of Media at Wright State University (Dayton). His articles and book reviews have been published in Literature / Film Quarterly, Theater Symposium, The Brecht Yearbook, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Studies in Documentary Film, Theatralia, Apparatus, Film & History, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is also the author of Brechtian Cinemas: Montage and Theatricality in Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Peter Watkins, and Lars von Trier (SUNY Press, 2017), as well as numerous books of creative writing.

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