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When documentary reality shifts beneath the filmmaker during production

I have been shooting documentary interviews for six months but I am starting to think my subject is lying to me and I do not know if the film is about what I thought

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The discovery of deception or self-deception in documentary subjects forces questions about truth and responsibility in nonfiction art.

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