How To Break Up is a pretty hilarious 3 min cartoon I found on YouTube. It’s made by Lev Yilmaz, from San Francisco. Watch it now then read on.
At first glance it’s a generalisation of human behaviour that isn’t factual. It’s a particularly funny fictional account of mister average, so it strikes a cord at points in its circular story with most of us. However, you know where this stuff comes from – the painful personal experiences of the scribe. I’m going to suggest that How To Break Up therefore inverses a major rule of documentary – you know the one about how you’re meant to take the particular experience you’re filming and imply its universal ramifications. What do you think – could this lo-fi cartoon be considered a type of personal documentary, or possibly as lying within the fast sinking sand between fact and fiction?
