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Fielder and Holmes Engage in Staring Contest in New Documentary
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In Short: Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes are featured in a staring contest in the new documentary "You Can See Everything," which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival.
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have made a documentary titled 'You Can See Everything,' which features Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos, in a staring contest.
The documentary, which began filming 34 days before Holmes was set to report to prison in May 2023, has evolved into a three-year project.
According to the A.V. Club, the film captures Holmes and Fielder in a staring contest, with Holmes insisting she has nothing to hide and is being genuine.
The Business Insider reports that Holmes maintains her innocence throughout the film, despite her conviction for defrauding investors.
Fielder and Oppenheim struggled to understand what they were witnessing while filming Holmes and her husband, Billy Evans.
The documentary, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, presents Holmes and Fielder in an intense staring contest, with Holmes refusing to blink.
Holmes' lack of emotion and vacuous gaze have left viewers with mixed reactions, ranging from pity to being freaked out.
Fielder has said he is still trying to process what he felt in Holmes' presence.
The film is described as a mind-bending journey into the abyss, blending character study, psychological thriller, and surrealist thought experiment.
The documentary is set to hit theaters in October.
"You Can See Everything" is a slippery mind-trick of a film, much like its subject, Elizabeth Holmes.
The staring contest between Fielder and Holmes is a central element of the documentary, raising questions about Holmes' true intentions and the nature of her character.
What this adds
The staring contest between Fielder and Holmes is a key element of the documentary, capturing Holmes' refusal to blink both literally and figuratively.
The documentary's evolution from a brief encounter to a three-year project highlights the complexity of its subject and the filmmakers' ongoing struggle to understand Holmes.
The mixed reactions of viewers, from pity to being freaked out, reflect the film's provocative nature and the enigmatic persona of Elizabeth Holmes.
Background
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's documentary, "You Can See Everything," explores the mind of Elizabeth Holmes, the convicted fraudster and former Theranos CEO.
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes engage in a staring contest in a new documentary, "You Can See Everything," which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival.
What's confirmed
- Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have made a documentary titled 'You Can See Everything,' which features Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos, in a staring contest.
- The documentary, which began filming 34 days before Holmes was set to report to prison in May 2023, has evolved into a three-year project.
- According to the A.V. Club, the film captures Holmes and Fielder in a staring contest, with Holmes insisting she has nothing to hide and is being genuine.
- The Business Insider reports that Holmes maintains her innocence throughout the film, despite her conviction for defrauding investors.
- Fielder and Oppenheim struggled to understand what they were witnessing while filming Holmes and her husband, Billy Evans.
- The documentary, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, presents Holmes and Fielder in an intense staring contest, with Holmes refusing to blink.
- Holmes' lack of emotion and vacuous gaze have left viewers with mixed reactions, ranging from pity to being freaked out.
- Fielder has said he is still trying to process what he felt in Holmes' presence.
- The film is described as a mind-bending journey into the abyss, blending character study, psychological thriller, and surrealist thought experiment.
- The documentary is set to hit theaters in October.
- "You Can See Everything" is a slippery mind-trick of a film, much like its subject, Elizabeth Holmes.
- The staring contest between Fielder and Holmes is a central element of the documentary, raising questions about Holmes' true intentions and the nature of her character.
What's still developing
- A good portion of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's movie could be classified as a provocative staring contest, as Fielder probes Holmes about her life and the demise of her company, Theranos, in the weeks before she reported to prison to serve an 11-year sentence in May 2023.
- The answers he gets from Holmes are rarely satisfactory. (At one point, she insists she's never told a lie in her entire adult life; despite being convicted of fraud, she maintains her innocence throughout the film.) But with the camera zoomed in tight on Holmes' every micro-expression and clump of mascara, the movie's power is in the questions it raises in the space between her words.
- In these profoundly uncanny scenes, I found myself fluctuating between being freaked out by the lack of emotion in Holmes' vacuous gaze and, to my surprise, pitying her.
- The story of how Holmes went from being named the youngest self-made female billionaire by Forbes to being convicted of defrauding investors as the founder and CEO of the blood-testing startup Theranos is well documented.
- "I think it will actually help me understand."
- At various points in A24's new documentary, "You Can See Everything," I vacillated between each of the above.
- "I'm really curious to hear what everyone else thinks, and what they make of certain things," Fielder said.
- Elizabeth Holmes famously does not blink, whether she's pitching investors or, by her own admission, flirting with a guy.
- Then I'd quickly shift back to being freaked out, because what if pity was exactly the reaction that Holmes — a talented, convicted fraudster — was angling for?
- It's been over three years since their close encounter of the Holmesian kind, and Fielder said he's still trying to process what he felt in her presence.
- Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors through Theranos, the blood-testing company she founded and once valued at billions of dollars.
- Fielder may have finally met his match, as far as finding a subject that is unwilling to blink, both literally and figuratively.