How can a documentary film exemplify the “creative treatment of actuality,” according to John Grierson’s popular definition? How can new media help the most daring contemporary filmmakers to alter or broaden this definition? Can animated documentaries animate a different take on reality? And how is the geological epoch of the Anthropocene connected with the case of “memes” in human social behavior – utterly expressed as internet gestures? Through original texts and engaging visual material, the Non-Catalog of the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival becomes the physical imprint of a special, online edition.
