USA,
2013, 84 min
(Director's cut: 57 min)
Directed by:
Penny LaneComposer:
Hrishikesh HirwayCast:
Henry Kissinger, Phil Donahue (a.f.), Richard Nixon (a.f.), Spiro Agnew (a.f.), Dan Rather (a.f.)Plots(1)
During Watergate, the FBI confiscated more than 500 reels of Super 8 film shot by Nixon’s advisors Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Chapin. The films spent 40 years locked in a government safe. Our Nixon uses this “found footage” as the basis not for an experiment in form, but for a humorous, playful and pertinent commentary on the line between privacy and politics.
“All of Nixon’s men” smile as they run towards the camera, a circus bear circles on a motorcycle, and a pop hit of the time goes: “You’ve been around for such a long time now.” A home video becomes the opening sequence for a television series.
(Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
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