About art, documents, documentaries and human responses

Abstract

Aesthetic experiences and art can be understood and defined as human ways of feeling, producing, acting ... responding to the universal. To natural and scenic audiovisual nature, cinema added the binomial surface-matrix that nurtured television and even the Internet, among others. All media may involve aesthetic experiences, even if they are not properly arts. We differ purely informative films, audiovisual documents from documentaries (film-art embodiments). Cinema, as art, proposes structures of signs and a universe of images valid in themselves, capable of more or less realism and fantasy in their referents. The look, the attitude, the artistic experience (and aesthetics) enhance such structures and sensory experiences. It may not even be related ostensible beyond their own ways. Such personal and social provisions differentiate between visual art media, whose primary purpose is communication, for art, one of its many functions. Thus, the fake-documentary is commonly a fiction film, suitable for rich experiences playful and hedonistic universe of art but not for purely media.