Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - The camera is just a fly on the wall which genre is it from?

The camera is just a fly on the wall which genre is it from?

Direct film genre.

The direct film genre that emerged in the United States in the 1960s compares photographers and cameras to flies on the wall. The purpose is to promote the influence of photographers, cameras, and filming behaviors on the subject by emphasizing the absence of presence. The photographer has no influence, thus emphasizing that the behavior of the photographed person has not deviated from its original appearance due to the existence of the shooting behavior.

It does this by filming everything people do as if the camera and crew were not there.