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A young filmmaking student turns his camera on a female friend as she gets ready to go out for the night. She confides in him something he struggles to come to grips with.
...No Lies
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01 May 1973
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I have never looked up to check if a film was fictional so quickly in my life.
Arresting social critique and a pointed deeper dig at the more voyeuristic impulses behind the ethos of cinéma vérité.
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hmm I’m still grappling with this one a bit. on the one hand it delivers an extremely valuable social critique, and it does so in a way that’s innovative and impactful in forcing the audience to reflect on important questions. on the other hand, given the fact that it depicts an intentionally insensitive treatment of such a sensitive topic (albeit in order to critique that insensitive treatment), the layer of audience manipulation feels like an irresponsible tactic to me; I’m just thinking about how re-traumatizing it could be for a survivor to witness this type of scenario unfold especially without knowing it’s scripted beforehand, and the fact that this actually screened at a documentary film festival with that degree of…
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After pioneers like Jean Roach and Robert Drew had established a discourse regarding the ethics of documentary filmmaking, film student Mitchell Block created an extraordinary indictment of the search for truth as it is rendered through cinema. Through Alec Hirschfield's cruel skeptic role, Block reproduces elements of a culture that is permissive not only of rape itself but the psychological abuse of those who've experienced sexual assault and dare to speak on the subject matter in a forum that doesn't center prosecution and legal justice.
Perhaps the cherry on top is that Shelby Leverington's character is on her way out to see The Night of the Hunter, a film also heavily concerned with how societies are inclined to protect perpetrators…
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Oh. J'ai vraiment, vraiment bien fait de regarder ce court seulement en connaissant son titre et qu'il avait une réputation (C'est juste 15 minutes, anyway, qu'avais-je à perdre), parce que j'étais au bout de mon siège, perdu dans des questionnements par rapport aux thèmes croisés. C'est pas évident d'écrire davantage. C'est un étudiant en cinéma, très typique étudiant en cinéma, bêtement en train de filmer une amie se préparer à sortir de chez elle, et pis voilà, c'est un seul plan en caméra épaule et euh fichus étudiants en cinéma bon sang
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...No Lies is too real. It's painful to watch even as someone without the experience depicted. Not knowing much about it going into it, I feared that I was watching an actual documentary and hoped that wasn't the case. But the fact that this one is fiction doesn't mean the same thing hasn't happened to numerous women both in the 1970s and today.
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The opening of Mitchell Block's 1973 short film "No Lies" may initially appear as a simple conversational movie. However, it quickly takes a different turn.
The cameraman, using 16mm film, captures the moments as a young woman prepares herself while discussing her plans for the evening. Following the conversation, we swiftly delve into the depths of a woman's trauma as she reveals her experience of being sexually assaulted. The film takes us on an unsettling and highly distressing journey, exploring the aftermath of this experience with raw intensity, mirroring the realities of everyday life. Especially using a documentary-like approach to disarm and engage the viewer. The use of a fausse-vérité style making the acting seemingly invisible until the impactful end.…
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NO LIES is a statement on documentary films. My goal was to make a fictional film that would convince the audience it was an actual documentary, a film that would be frankly manipulative.
(...) The film is about rape in both a literal and figurative sense, since that was the subect that both the actress, Shelby Leverington, and I wanted to deal with. Over a six-week period we interviewed rape victims. (...) Theoretically, we could have filmed any of these women, but what would have put us back in the "real documentary" genre. Also, we felt that it was wrong to put an actual rape victim through the ordeal of retelling the story of her hape. The script for NO…