Dokumenty performatywne Raeda Andoniego i Rithy Panha jako projekt historiografii krytycznej
Raed Andoni and Rithy Panh’s Performative Documentaries as an Exercise in Critical Historiography

Summary/Abstract: The article demonstrates the critical potential of documentaries based on the practice of reconstruction. The author analyses works by the Raed Andoni, Ghost Hunting (primary text), and Rithy Panh, S21: the Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (secondary text), as examples of critical historiography. She focuses on two issues fundamental from a historiographic perspective: the positioning of social actors as credible witnesses to traumatic historical events and the function of the places where these events took place. The author draws on Vanessa Agnew’s theory and positions the documentaries within the affective history, which focuses not on events, processes, or structures, but on physical and psychological experience. Andoni’s film is also situated within Hayden White’s historiographic paradigm, which focuses on the concepts of historical narrative as construction, fictionalisation, and self-referentiality understood as a strategy of resistance against the ideology of objectivity. The author assumes that post-modern versions of history are like films about filmmaking, or novels about writing, or (Brechtian) performances that draw our attention to their own fictionality.

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