His Garden/他的花园2024,  14 min
Digital Video

SO… WHAT IS A DOCUMENTARY?
A person,
or

(a film is a video—an artificial container of certain messages)

an institution… making a point,
establishing an “unbiased” authority,
or combating the grandiose—the “icon”?

But how does one entity prove honesty and sincerity overoneanother.
Scientifically speaking.

(facts or craft?)
cinéma vérité, structuralism, or post-structuralism.

Wordplay, rhetoric, persuasion.

hm…

Personal documentaries are fictional narratives—
a use of rhetoric, like cinéma vérité.

(Only partial truths emerge when filmmaking stops being a craft.)

An idea—
a relic of the 20th century......yet......yet


(I can prove nothing but the way of my looking.)

His Garden is a documentary style video poem.