Podcast

Points of View at True/False

Eyes and ears: the directors of We Met in Virtual Reality and I Didn't See You There join for a special live conversation about how documentaries make and unmake our ways of seeing

A common term in nonfiction filmmaking and criticism, “point of view” connotes a number of different meanings: a perspective on the world, a camera position, an assertion of subjectivity. Last week, at the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, FC co-editor Devika Girish led a special Film Comment Live Talk with filmmakers Reid Davenport (I Didn’t See You There) and Joe Hunting (We Met in Virtual Reality) to explore the material, aesthetic, and political implications of a cinematic point of view, and how documentaries make and unmake our ways of seeing.

 

     

This story is part of the Winter 2022 issue of Film Comment.

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