We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: The Joan Didion Documentary's Pioneering Approach to Collaborative Filmmaking

Avery Nejam Limited Edition Print. Image courtesy of Avery Nejam "We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion writes to open one of her many seminal essays, "The White Album." "We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social and moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have l...