“We are reminded, once again, that there are people both in front of and behind that camera,” Isaac You reflects in their review of The Gig Is Up, “that even this documentary relies on the active participation of humans.” The column I am talking about is one of four DOXA reviews in this issue — The Gig Is Up, Koto: The Last Service, You Are Not A Soldier and Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy. I tell you this not as aimless revelation, but because it gestures to what these reviews epitomize so effectively — even in the strictest of narratives, a documentary, there is room for nuance. A whole nervous system of it in fact. We interpret what we see — in the sorry stuff of 2021 — as stories to help us live. The sinister inertia of narrative-formining tends to suggest everything can be frozen and identified immediately. That safety lies in generalization. I worry that, because of the need to impose an intelligible narra