factography means A movement originating in the Soviet Union, promoting the use of film and photography for documentary purposes by the working class. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why “factography” is a great word
FACTOGRAPHY — [Noun] A militant Soviet avant-garde movement advocating for documentary film and photography as a tool for revolutionary consciousness and proletarian self-representation. From fact (from Latin factum, "a thing done, deed") + -o- (connective) + -graphy (from Greek -graphia, "writing, recording"). Coined in 1928. Unlike "documentary," a broad genre of non-fiction media, or "photojournalism," a practice of news photography for established channels, factography was a political theory of art dissolved into socialist construction. It is the grainy newsreel of a factory collective, the stark photomontage condemning bourgeois decay, the unadorned snapshot of a newly electrified village—not merely recording reality, but hammering it into a new, collective fact.
Etymology
From fact + -o- + -graphy.
noun
- A movement originating in the Soviet Union, promoting the use of film and photography for documentary purposes by the working class.