This is my tribute to beautiful documentary interviews. Screengrabs from films, posted occasionally. Different styles, all striking. This site is intended as a source book for filmmakers and film lovers.

3rd December 2011

The Tillman Story (2010). Directed by Amir Bar-Lev. Cinematography by Sean Kirby and Ignor Martinovic. This interview-driven film has a distinct visual style: a single soft source positioned at a low angle gives it a brooding and high-contrast look. Here is retired Lt. General Philip Kinsinger of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, speaking obliquely about the fact that higher ranks were involved in the cover-up of Tillman’s death by friendly fire.“My wife says I’m too much of a soldier. I’ve been doing it you know since seventeen. When somebody tells me something, tells me to go do something, you say, in the Army you salute and you know about face and go get it done. Um, to think that, you know, this is how, you know, you get treated…”

The Tillman Story (2010). Directed by Amir Bar-Lev. Cinematography by Sean Kirby and Ignor Martinovic. This interview-driven film has a distinct visual style: a single soft source positioned at a low angle gives it a brooding and high-contrast look.

Here is retired Lt. General Philip Kinsinger of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, speaking obliquely about the fact that higher ranks were involved in the cover-up of Tillman’s death by friendly fire.
“My wife says I’m too much of a soldier. I’ve been doing it you know since seventeen. When somebody tells me something, tells me to go do something, you say, in the Army you salute and you know about face and go get it done. Um, to think that, you know, this is how, you know, you get treated…”

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