photo: Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada
Produced by: Elizabeth Barret Judi Jennings
In Jeremiah, Kentucky, in 1967, a local landowner named Hobart Ison shot and killed documentary filmmaker Hugh O'Connor. The two men had met only minutes before the murder--shortly after O'Connor and his crew interviewed a poor family renting property from Ison. By considering this single act of violence, STRANGER WITH A CAMERA spotlights the complex role media depictions play in society, and the responsibilities that those who produce media must assume.
Co-presentation of Kentucky Educational Television and P.O.V.
Premiere: P.O.V., July 11, 2000 at 10 PM
"This provocative, troubling film about an almost forgotten tragedy will arouse conflicting emotions, but it's a perceptive meditation on our eternal ambivalence about our relationship with the media."
- Library Journal
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