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The story is more about watching the article and the book be produced. We wanted the film to reflect that experience. Since the book was about voyeurism and how that [term] relates to Gay and his whole career, we thought a documentary would be a perfect way to examine both him and his work.

I made a little profile video about his quirkiness and obsessive research. However, controversy swirled around the book when The Washington Post published an article detailing timeline discrepancies in this single-source book.

From peeping toms to motorcycle-riding bad boys, blind dates to intimate massages, each story welcomes viewers in a a titillating new world.

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I think he quite liked that. Did you look at the book and decide what to include in the film and what to leave out? Based on that, Josh and I decided that there might be a doc here—certainly about Gay Talese as a writer, but also about the idea of doing a present-day narrative about Gay Talese in his early eighties writing a piece in real-time.

For years, he kept a detailed diary of the things he observed in the unsuspecting motel rooms. Why do you think Gerald wanted to be filmed? Theoretically, Gerald let us film him because we were with Gay. We were making a film about Gay, and afterwards it evolved to include him.

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We chatted with the filmmakers over the phone about the evolution and gradual shape of Voyeuras well as the different levels of voyeurism. While shooting the video, he was openly talking about gearing up to write this new book that had been long in gay making about this voyeur.

On January 7,journalist Gay Talese received an anonymous letter in the mail. The film evolved from there to being more about journalists and subjects, which happened as we got more access to Gay and Gerald. Do you see a parallel between the voyeur and the general film spectator?

A man enters the men's room and gets peeping than he bargained for. AND FESTIVAL HISTORYCambridge Shorts Cambridge, UK 13/11/18 fliQs Queer Fi. Their relationship starts to crumble. He was a complete secret that only Gay knew. Did you approach him?

Using a combination of talking head interviews and hyper-specific miniature models to replicate the motel and its rooms, the documentary is more about the ethically grey and slippery relationship between an author and its source. At one point, Gay even remarks on your access to Gerald in the film.

From the beginning, Gerald wanted to be known. The blow-up led to Talese publicly denouncing it, then eventually going back on his denunciation. We started in —nothing had even been written yet. Anything you see in the film about Gerald and Gay describing these stories was told to us before they were formally written.