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b'Since film\\u2019s inception\\u2014from the Lumi\\xe8re\\u2019s early actualit\\xe9s to Robert Flaherty\\u2019s Nanook of the North\\u2014the boundary between documentary and fiction film has been fairly fluid (or not even a term of discussion.) And as Jacques Rivette once observed: \\u201cEvery film is a documentary of its own making.\\u201d Thanks in part to the relative ease and low cost of digital filmmaking tools, directors from a variety of backgrounds have more leeway to explore and expand the definition of documentary, incorporating fictional or fictionalized elements into non-fiction works. Now in its third year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center\\u2019s series The Art of the Real offers a showcase for such films, and offers a variety of documentaries, hybrid documentaries, experimental films, and narrative films in a non-fiction context. Co-programmed by Dennis Lim, director of programming at Film Society, and Rachael Rakes, a programmer at large at Film Society, this year\\u2019s program includes films culled from festivals from around the world: Ben Rivers\\u2019s What Means Something, Mauro Herce\\u2019s Dead Slow Ahead, Brett Story\\u2019s The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, Sergio Oksman\\u2019s O Futebol, Ju Anqi\\u2019s Poet on a Business Trip, Andr\\xe9s Duque\\u2019s Oleg and the Rare Arts, Roberto Minervini\\u2019s The Other Side, Im Heung-soon, Factory Complex, Thom Anderson\\u2019s The Thoughts That Once We Had, and Hassen Ferhani\\u2019s A Roundabout in My Head, to name a few. FILM COMMENT Digital Editor Violet Lucca was joined by Lim and Rakes, as well as Eric Hynes, FILM COMMENT columnist and associate director of programming at the Museum of the Moving Image, to discuss the motivations behind the series, and the films themselves.'