This is the exact mentality that has drawn me to the work of people such as Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, two filmmakers that make unconventional documentary films about unique subjects that challenge the boundaries of what a documentary film actually can possibly be through their manipulation of form and content, where the subjects speak for themselves and construct their own story, and the filmmaker does not intervene in the stream of the story in any way that is not necessary. I am a proud member of that niche audience, and I find the more abstract and odd the subject of the documentary is, the better. However, the form still manages to live on despite the fact that it panders to an extremely niche audience. Documentary films are such an underappreciated cinematic form, mainly because around-the-clock news programming and micro-documentaries presented on television and over social media have made the idea of the innovative, long-form documentary somewhat redundant.
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