Truth or Dare
Mar 31, 2020
2 minutes
By MATTHEW SPECKTOR
inema is truth at twenty-four frames per second.” Jean-Luc Godard’s famous, albeit miscontextualized, remark is cited twice in Jon Wilkman’s . If Wilkman doesn’t actually quote Godard’s words in their entirety (“…and every cut is a lie”), it’s because he is dedicated to the proposition that documentary filmmaking is a necessarily slippery business, its claims to truth invariably compromised.
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