Reading about Imperfect cinema really resonated with me. I was introduced to the concept of third cinema a couple months ago in a documentary analysis class and now having read about imperfect cinema I am left with the question: are these two terms/classifications interchangeable? Regardless of if they are or aren’t, both third cinema and imperfect cinema share a common goal, and it is to explore untold and forgotten cultural histories and traumas of a collective who are not represented in mainstream media. The thing I appreciate the most about this type of cinema is its rejection of mainstream conventions. I like that its goal is to tell a story without trying to captivate audiences who respond to these conventions and instead capture the attention of a broader, less tended to, audience. An audience who will feel seen with these stories. Through doing this, cinema arguably becomes more accessible. One does not have to be of a “cultured elite”, as Julio Garcia Espinosa puts it, to appreciate this cinema. Imperfect cinema strives to reject a form which results from trying to please this mainstream audience.