Referenced Documentaries

So far I have studied three documentaries and have been applying the concept of the 'Big O'. This was originally a short story for children that the Cultural Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examined and believed explained how people psychologically have a 'lack' which they have to fill. Zizek explains this concept theoretically as how everyone is a metaphorically a circle with a piece missing, as a consequence we constantly strive to find this missing piece to fill the void.

In each of the documentaries this idea of a 'lack' is essentially what is being explored, in my opinion this appears to be the central narrative role for any documentary. The concept applies most strongly to 'Married to the Eiffel Tower' and 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' more than in 'Grizzly Man' as the woman in M.T.T.E.T has found her missing piece through loving objects. In E.T.T.G.S all of the street artists featured constantly search for that one special spot for their work and are always doing more graffiti every night and when will enough be enough? In 'Grizzly Man' the subject matter. Timothy Treadwell, follows his desire to be a as close as he can to a community of bears with disastrous results. All of these characters desires are fairly extreme but they do explore a very human experience, if an individual has a 'lack' they are consumed with pursuing something that will complete them or fulfil them in some way.
 
By watching these three documentaries I have made a final decision that I will be making a documentary film for my practical work. From these documentaries I have gained a psychological insight into what drives individuals to follow certain pursuits as a desire to fulfil needs. This is the type of question I want to answer in my own documentary on graffiti. I will need to establish what are the drives lead graffiti artists to go out in the middle of the night to write their name on a wall whilst risking getting arrested and in some cases their life. The questions will be asked in a formal interview technique as some of my reference documentaries contained with the protagonists of my film, as I have stated also in my production log.