{"id":2047,"date":"2025-02-04T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/?page_id=2047"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:02:21","slug":"ar-kas-nors-patikes-kinematografiniai-liudijimai-is-mariupolio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/archyvas\/turinys-t-16\/ar-kas-nors-patikes-kinematografiniai-liudijimai-is-mariupolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Will they Believe? Cinematic Testimonies from Mariupol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narius Kairys, Nerijus Milerius <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/05_MIS-16__2024-Kairys-Milerius.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>(PDF)<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/05_MIS-16__2024-Kairys-Milerius.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53631\/MIS\/2024.16.5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Modern warfare is increasingly characterised as a conflict over truth, where the side that effectively constructs and disseminates its version of reality holds a strategic advantage. This paper argues that the perceived objectivity of documentary footage does not inherently equate to truth; rather, it is the subjective perspective of the filmmaker that often provides deeper insights. We propose that the more personal and subjective a documentary film is, the closer it may come to capturing a nuanced truth. To explore this idea, we employ Michel de Certeau\u2019s concepts of tactics and strategies to examine the interplay between subjective experience and the notion of truth in war documentaries. Our analysis focuses on three films documenting the siege of Mariupol during Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Mantas Kvedaravi\u010dius and Hanna Bilobrova\u2019s Mariupolis 2 (2022), Mstyslav Chernov\u2019s 20 Days in Mariupol (2023), and Robin Barnwell\u2019s Mariupol: The People\u2019s\u00a0 Story (2023). Despite their differing methodologies \u2014 ethnographic observation in Kvedaravi\u010dius\u2019 film, real-time reporting in Chernov\u2019s work, and the use of archival and found footage in Barnwell\u2019s documentary \u2014 all three films offer distinct and compelling testimonies that contribute to the broader landscape of war-related media imagery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Mantas Kvedaravi\u010dius, Mstyslav Chernov, documentary film, Mariupol<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narius Kairys, Nerijus Milerius (PDF) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53631\/MIS\/2024.16.5 Modern warfare is increasingly characterised as a conflict over truth, where the side that effectively constructs and disseminates its version of reality holds a strategic advantage. This paper argues that the perceived objectivity of documentary footage does not inherently equate to truth; rather, it is the subjective perspective of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/archyvas\/turinys-t-16\/ar-kas-nors-patikes-kinematografiniai-liudijimai-is-mariupolio\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2020,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2047","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2047\/revisions\/2049"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arthistorystudies.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}