Errol Morris
Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American documentary film director, considered perhaps one of the greatest documentarians currently living today.
He is the inventor and sole documentarian using, the interrotron, a device where the interviewer and subject look into a camera,
upon which is projected an image of the other's face. Consequently, his interviews achieve an intimacy that no other film makers
have been able to replicate. The themes of his films frequently include the self-deception in individuals, obsession, and death.
He has often retold his version of the story of the expulsion from paradise, where God realized the cruelty in casting man out
into the world, and so he gave man self-deception, the ability to lie to oneself. Morris's chief work is in getting beneath 'the
lies we tell ourselves'.
Morris gained fame after the release of The Thin Blue
Line, a film arguing that a man convicted of murder in Dallas County, Texas had been convicted wrongfully; the film was submitted as evidence to secure the
retrial leading to the man's eventual release. Before his career as a film-maker, Morris was a graduate student at Princeton University and later a Phd candidate at UC Berkeley. Morris left school shortly before
finishing his studies, however, to make Gates of Heaven. Morris also
spent some years as a private investigator.
He won the Academy Award
for Documentary Feature in 2004 for The Fog of War, a life and times of Vietnam-era
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.
In December 2001, the United States' National Film Preservation Foundation announced that Morris' The Thin Blue
Line would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, bringing the total at the time to 325.
In 2002, Morris directed a series of television ads for Apple Computer as part of a "Switch" campaign. In July 2004,
Morris agreed to direct a series of ads for the liberal advocacy group MoveOn PAC.
Films by Errol Morris
Morris also had a television show, First Person, with shorter weekly
documentary films.
Films about Errol Morris
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