Special Features (14 min / 2014)

By James N. Kienitz Wilkins

12 min ⚬ MiniDV-to-HD ⚬ Color ⚬ Stereo ⚬ English ⚬ USA ⚬ 2014

An interviewee interacts with an interviewer, recounting a special experience at once unique and shared.

Assuming the familiar form of a sit-down interview, the role of the interviewee is quickly revealed as an edited performance on aged videotape, and depending on one’s “behind-the-scenes” knowledge, a performed interview, or documentation of actors performing text they are reading in real-time from a teleprompter, covering seemingly personal and uncomfortable topics normally left unsaid.