Self-referentiality in documentary film in Latin America.

One of the most significant elements for contemporary documentary film making is the issue of self-referentiality. This fact underscores the author's position on the work and reality. In this reality the author looks at himself or re-elaborates the image of others from his point of view. This tendency is shared in the documentary film and literature, as a subjective and personal perspective. This tendency suffers a period of rupture in both sorts from the disenchantment of the cinematographic production and the literary production after World War II. In the decades after this and until today, a clear evolution of this tendency reflected in this article is observed through several examples of the documentary cinematography of Latin America.