ABSTRACT
Documentary is a form of story-telling. It can be nothing else. The reason is time.
Unlike other forms of visual art, paintings, photographs, sculptures, comic strips, installations, a television film is inevitably a traveller in time. It unrolls at a steady speed from start to finish. Like the writing of Omar Khayyam's moving finger: 'nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line.' Time is built into the film as its basic premise. Event follows event in a pauseless flow.
