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Is It Wrong or Just Weird When Filmmakers Are Interviewed in Their Own Documentary?
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Is It Wrong or Just Weird When Filmmakers Are Interviewed in Their Own Documentary?

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Christopher Campbell
Jul 15, 2014
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This might be more than a pet peeve for me. Documentaries that feature interviews with their own director seem to be just plain wrong. It throws off the whole center of a film’s perspective and confuses its voice. Anytime I’m watching a doc and the director shows up as a talking head, one who is meant to be on equal ground as the rest of the talking hea…

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