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pandemic is likely to lead to increased political and economic crisis, conflict and nationalism I consider Steyerl's proposition that throughout history moments of extreme conflict and crisis gave rise to the development of a new range of aesthetic approaches to artistic research–including the essayistic documentary film. I focus on the films of Ken Fero and Oliver Ressler and discuss the methodological decisions I took in the construction of my own interlinked trilogy of epistolary documentary films produced with the aim of evoking spectatorial resistance.

Keywords: Alexander Kluge ; Documentary practice ; Epistolary essay ; Hito Steyerl ; Hybrid strategies ; Marxism ; Memory and history ; Nationalism ; Political action ; Rosa Luxemburg ; Visual language

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The Non-fiction Oppositional Film Cinematic Aesthetics of Resistance: Reframing the Non-fiction Oppositional Film
Intellect , 144 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789387438_16
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  20. Ressler, O. . (Director). ( 2009). What is Democracy? https://www.ressler.at/what_is_democracy/
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