The filmmaker interacts with subjects (e.g., interviewing industry veterans). Performative:
The silence that followed was absolute. Even the hum of the city seemed to stop.
I nodded, clutching the leather-bound notebook that held six months of research. Six months of phone calls, of leaked emails, of interviews conducted in parked cars and anonymous hotel rooms. Shattered Glass: The Unmaking of Julian Farrow . That was the title. My documentary.
We didn’t cut. The camera kept rolling. And for the first time in my career, I didn’t know what to do with the truth.