"Certain people start with a documentary and arrive at fiction... others start with fiction and arrive at the documentary." -Jean Luc Godard. This course is a broad survey of documentary (nonfiction) film and video history, theory and practice. We will use the term "documentary" as a loose construct to examine the ways in which artists use the moving image to explore, represent, construct and change the world. A special emphasis will be placed on the outer limits of "documentary" film: the places where its status and function as nonfiction is challenged or confused. Technical and aesthetic aspects of video production will be covered in a cumulative series of workshops and exercises culminating in three short video projects.