닉 브룸필드(Nick Broomfield)의 다큐멘터리영화방법론 고찰

Nick Broomfield's Methodology for Documentary Filmmaking: Critical Analysis of Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer

Nick Broomfield is a well-known documentary filmmaker in the world as well as in the United Kingdom. His documentaries are characterized by fearlessness, social satire, black humor and creepy characters living in the margins of society. Especially, Broomfield's latest films are very reflexive and can also be categorized as a 'participatory mode'. The paper begins with a brief review of Nick Broomfield's background. Secondly, it explores the concept of reflexivity in the documentary film. Thirdly, it briefly explains a participatory mode and poetics of interview in the documentary film. And then it overviews broadly Nick Broomfiled‘s methodology for documentary film-making in special reference to reflexivity and participatory mode. The latter part of the paper focuses on Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer as a text and critically analyzes the textual components and contents. According to Broomfield, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer is the most personal film to date. In Aileen, the filmmker is a main part of the film and his presence becomes main structure of the story. The intrusion of him into the situation affects and alters that situation. Broomfield insists that it is more honest to make his presence in front of the camera rather than to stay behind the camera. He thinks that the interaction between the film-maker and those being filmed is important. He also reveals the process of his pursuing the truth in the film and filmmaking itself in Aileen so that the audience understands it. In this way, his film is reflexive as well as participatory.