MANIFESTO

1. NO SCRIPT.
Script and reality are incompatible. Before shooting there shall be determined only the place where the film-making process shall start, sometimes together with characters of the film and the general idea. As of the start of shooting, only real events shall determine the course of dramatic concept.
*meanwhile, reality cinema doesn’t aspire to state the facts without fear or favor. Reality cinema is not a copy of reality.

2. NO MORAL LIMITS FOR THE AUTHOR WHEN MAKING A FILM. EXCEPT FOR THOSE OF LEGAL NATURE.
In order to submerge into the space of the object being shot, it is allowed to use all existing technological methods; an ordinary camera, motion-picture observation, hidden shooting and so on.
Ethic questions shall be settled not in the course of shooting, but in the course of editing.

3. THE AUTHOR SHALL NOT BE HOSTAGE OF TECHNOLOGY.
It is possible to disregard the film strip, studio sound and light, the angle and the work for the sake of a possibility to shoot the real-time events. Picture quality is not as important as reality.

4. IN THE COURSE OF HIS MOVIE THE AUTHOR SHALL INFORM THE AUDIENCE ON TIME AND PLACE SHOWN IN THE FILM.
If it doesn’t hurt the objects or the characters being shot.

5. NO ADAPTATION OR RECONSTRUCTION.
The author may provoke his characters to do whatever he wants and he himself may take part in it.

6. NO LIMITS IN THE FILM DURATION.
Maybe even an eternal live performance.

7. DENIAL OF EXISTENCE OF “THE END”.
No film can have an end, because reality is perpetual. So the author may create new versions of the film at any time convenient and continue shooting after first public demonstration. In the final caption instead of putting the word “The End” there shall be put the date of the first public demonstration of this film version. In case of making new versions, the date of the first public demonstration shall be indicated after the date (dates) of demonstration of previous versions.

Vitaly Manskiy

Magazine “Iskusstvo kino” (The art of cinema) № 10, 2005.