through July 2nd 2011
In much of his work, Ataman uncovers stories of exceptional subjects – the socially excluded, the sexually eccentric, the criminal – and uses the medium of film to construct a meaningful social reality. Through his dedication to storytelling, he also challenges the assumptions of the documentary tradition – objectivity, truthfulness, transparency. Ataman joins documentary to fiction in a merging of testimony into screenplay – and indeed in this work two of the seven beggars may have even been actors, hired to perform.
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