An Uncomfortable Journey: Vanessa Gorman's Losing Layla

This is the third and final article in a series that considers the way in which the interaction between filmmaker and participant shapes the documentary text. This instalment examines Losing Layla, in which the filmmaker, Vanessa Gorman, is also the participant. Kate Nash explores Gorman's experience as autobiographical documentary practice and suggests that it is a complex act in which freedom and constraint are coincident.