What are reality and truth anyway? And what do changing technologies and approaches to the world mean for documentary in the age of mistrust? Those were the topics of debate at the CPH:Conference industry event of the 23rd edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) on Tuesday afternoon.
The session, moderated by Tabitha Jackson, the former Sundance Film Festival chief and new director of the venerable Film Forum non-profit arthouse cinema in New York, touched on audience research, media theory, and the growing impact of synthetic media and AI and how truth is “increasingly fluid, personalized, and context-dependent,” as a preview of the panel highlighted. It also asked: “If seeing is no longer believing, how do audiences decide what is real? What happens to precision, verification, and public service values in the post-truth world? And how should documentary rethink its relevance, ethics, and craft in an AI-augmented media ecosystem?”
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