Fruchtman had to cope, in a country which didn't even have a television service in 1961, with massive technical challenges, not least the trial judges' refusal to countenance hot and loud cameras in the trial space.
He's contributed to VICE before (he did a history of the cockroach in 20th-century art for us a while back, and he once persuaded webcam models to read his sonnets out loud on camera), but the piece he wrote for this issue is the most personal, and disturbing, thing he's ever given to us.
As the engine grows louder, the camera alternates between the road and the dashboard, showing the speedometer continually increasing until it maxes out at more than 140 mph.
The unfettered opinions members of Congress spew into microphones, out loud, while cameras are rolling makes me cringe for the people working minimum wage jobs.
But during a longer period, I remember more clearly, he did show up at my gymnastics exhibitions and open houses (lanky, loud, bearing cameras whose pictures never got developed) and took me on field-trip-worthy Saturday excursions.
(Remember the Louds?) Wall cameras sensitive to body heat and portable devices worn over the heads of the film crew will capture every moment of activity.
At some point, the whirring became louder and camera-laden drones appeared, underscoring the eerie likeness of the projections to leaked drone-strike footage.
Writing in The Times, Alessandra Stanley called the film "a clever, beautifully made but somehow underwhelming re-enactment of the breakup of the Loud marriage, on camera and off".
(Anna Karina wonders out loud to the camera: "Un plan? Pourquoi?") Mr. Tarantino invented the neo-heist film with "Reservoir Dogs" (next Friday), which declines to show the holdup and instead surrounds it with free-flowing streams of blood and jabber.
Writing in The New York Times, Alessandra Stanley called the film "a clever, beautifully made but somehow underwhelming re-enactment of the breakup of the Loud marriage, on camera and off".
