“A marvelous documentary…Packed beyond vacancy with discussions of weighty topics like authorial intent, truth in journalism, and media manipulation.”
-Vanity Fair
“Disturbing, absorbing and eerily timely.”
-LA Times
VOYEUR
A Netflix Original Documentary
CREDITS //
Directors: Myles Kane & Joshua Koury Original Score: Joel Goodman
Producer: Trisha Barkman Starring: Gay Talese and Gerald Foos
Editors: Myles Kane & Joshua Koury
Released in 2017 – 95 mins.
SYNOPSIS //
Gay Talese’s book The Voyeur’s Motel was a long-researched single-source portrait of Gerald Foos, the now infamous owner of the Manor House Motel which he designed and used for the secret observation of its guests and their sexual activities. Talese, who had forged through similar ethical gray areas while reporting his study of American post-war sexuality, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, spent years researching the story and experienced Foos’s clandestine observation post firsthand. Filmmakers Myles Kane and Josh Koury were filming as the story developed, giving them unprecedented access to both Talese and Foos. When questions arose about timelines and Foos’s general reliability, the subsequent controversy and the media attention that the book’s salacious subject matter elicited created tensions that even the filmmakers couldn’t escape. The resulting film is a fascinating dissection of the relationship between subject and author, and between the watcher and the watched. (Courtesy of Doc Stories, San Francisco)
FESTIVALS //
New York Film Festival – World Premiere
Hampton's International Film Festival
Doc Stories San Francisco
Double Exposure: Investigative Film Festival and Symposium