What I found most intriguing about the Sachs interview was
her approach to documentary. She talks
about getting people to open up to her by making their experiences familiar as
opposed to alienating them, and making them feel like they experienced some
grand horror that’s so far away from the filmmaker that they could never
understand. One problem I have with most
documentaries I’ve seen (think History Channel) is that the narrators always
seem so far removed from the historical circumstances because they tend to
treat it like just that: history. I
think I would be able to connect with a documentary more if it treated those
circumstances more like experiences people actually lived, which they are. Her whole philosophy on familiarity is very
insightful to me. The concept of a dirty
bed being the most intimate you can be with a person without them actually
there is something I’d never thought about before, but I guess that’s why I can
never really sleep in hotels.
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