The Truth

The film is inspired by the intellectual, dialogue-driven films of Éric Rohmer.

This film's circular composition portrays the futility of conducting interviews with politicians in a time and era where political communication has become extremely professionalized – and thus, paradoxically, more insincere.

The film is a plausible take on modern politics and shows two characters with vastly different morals and ethics.

I have always been inspired by the so-called chamber plays of Ibsen, Strindberg and Eugene O'Neill. I wanted to use some of that claustrophobic setting of one location and condensed, impactful writing in a film with subtle, naturalistic acting.

We want the film to frustrate and galvanize an audience into pondering and asking critical questions about the nature of political manipulation and the things that some politicians get away with – and whether our modern democracies are sufficiently equipped to discern truth from lies and manipulation.

We used an aspect ratio with less width to create a more claustrophobic environment and handheld camera to convey a sense of a warm conversation turning eerie, chaotic and even violent – and worked with lighting and grading to create a cold, callous room and to differentiate between the two characters, one in light, and one in darkness; one strongly conscious of morals, ethics and empathy, and one as a machiavellian éminence grise.