A performance is never just what it looks like. These films are about people who present themselves to be seen, and the gap between what they show and what the camera records. The subject and the observer are never looking at the same thing.
The camera captures what the subject came to control.
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Stories We Tell2012
Sarah Polley turns the documentary camera on her own family to excavate a secret, and discovers that each person who lived through the same events carries a different version. A film about the irreducible distance between the story someone tells and the story they are in.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley2019
Gibney gathers the believers and the deceived into the same frame and lets each version stand against the others. A precise portrait of how much people will project onto a subject who refuses to be seen clearly.
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Some Kind of Heaven2021
Oppenheim's debut follows residents of The Villages, the nation's largest retirement community, who are collectively performing a vision of late life. The camera is patient; what it catches isn't.
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You Can See Everything2026
Fielder and Oppenheim spent 34 days inside Holmes's home before her imprisonment, then continued filming for three years. The film she agreed to may not be the one they made.
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October 2026 Watchlist: four documentaries about people who invite cameras in and slowly lose control of their own story, ending with nathan fielder's doc on elizabeth holmes. #YouCanSeeEverything #SomeMovieNews
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October 2026 Watchlist: four docs about subjects who invite cameras in and lose control of the story. ends with holmes and fielder. #YouCanSeeEverything #SomeMovieNews