Abstract: "Frontier Documentary" is the non-fiction filming of the frontierethnic people to film themselves.In the generalized aesthetic perspective of Jacques Rancière's "partage du sensible",the frontier documentaries embody the non-discrimination of subject selection and the liberation of human natures,and explore its artistic and political values with the introduction of equality dimension.Through the artistic operation of "self-otherization",it has transformed the order of "partage du sensible" in the frontier.The rural expressions released by the transition from "etic" to "emic" and "participative filming" to "independent creation" have become the key quality to evaluate its poetic power.On the other hand,the image representation based on "difference" often leads to "the narcissism of minor difference",and excessiveness of parole also brings some kind of "sanctification conception",which then makes its difference politics paradoxically generate new sensible inequalities.

Key words: frontier documentary, self-otherization, aesthetic transition, differencepolitics, equality paradox