Subject

Name: Subject
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 3, 2023
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Arthur Agee, Assia Boundaoui, Elaine Friedman, Evgeny Afineevsky, Joe Brewster

2023

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: November 3, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Arthur Agee, Assia Boundaoui, Elaine Friedman, Evgeny Afineevsky, Joe Brewster, Mukunda Angulo, Patricia Aufderheide, Rebecca Day, Sonya Childress, Valerie Complex

Summary: In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? Subject reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of Minding theIn the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? Subject reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of Minding the Gap, Cameraperson, An Inconvenient Truth, and more.… Expand

Director: Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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IndieWire Kristen Lopez

Nov 1, 2023

Hall and Tiexiera create something incredibly special with Subject. The subject matter (pun totally intended) yields a documentary that isn’t against the documentary world, but wants audiences to simply question what they’re watching Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Nov 1, 2023

It’s thought-provoking stuff, which also explores our own role, as audience members, in the voracious demand for other people’s stories. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Nov 1, 2023

The question of who gets to tell stories is discussed (spoiler: mostly white men, until recently), and for a 97-minute film, Subject squeezes in a lot of ethical biggies. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Nov 6, 2023

A documentary dork’s delight, Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall’s Subject is one of those films about which my biggest lament is that it could have been five times as long — with the caveat that while I would be down for a 10-part series on documentary ethics, this 96-minute intro will be a thoroughly effective conversation starter. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Robert Daniels

Nov 3, 2023

Subject includes harrowing stories while leading voices in the documentary sphere offer their insights. It’s not a film out for blood, which becomes a blessing and a curse for its filmmakers. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Nov 13, 2023

When its pet topics enter into conversation with one another, revealing a throughline underscoring the basic rights of everyone working on a film project, Subject cruises along. In the film’s most propulsive sections, passion is as paramount as self-awareness, with vigorously cut documentary snippets affectionately emphasizing its self-critical points. Read full review

Calum Marsh

Nov 2, 2023

Subject is at its clearest when interrogating the material conditions of documentary filmmaking, as during a segment about whether the subjects of nonfiction films have the right to be paid for their participation; it feels slipperier when glossing issues of diversity and representation. Read full review

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