Describing the significance of Ottinger's work today, Paterson says: «I felt that her particular exploration of the potential in splicing documentary and
fictive structures resonated with a lot of artists» film made over recent years, but perhaps through a more riotous and unruly mode of practice».
Meanwhile, Marcel Broodthaers was inventing elaborate
fictive institutional
structures, playfully poking at the grandiose claims made by the art industry.