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Director
  
Mitchell Block

Screenplay
  
Mitchell Block

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

7.6/10
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Genre
  
Short, Drama

Producer
  
Mitchell Block

Writer
  
Mitchell Block

Language
  
English

No Lies movie poster

Release date
  
1973

Cast
  
Shelby Leverington, Alec Hirschfeld

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No Lies is a 1973 short dramatic film made by Mitchell Block while he was a student at New York University. The film, which is in the style of a cinéma vérité interview, deals with a young woman who has been raped and has been widely viewed by nurses, therapists and police officers.

In 2008, No Lies... was selected for inclusion by the United States Library of Congress to its National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Literature

  • Vivian Sobchack (1977): No Lies. Direct Cinema as Rape. In: Journal of the University Film Association 29.4 (1977): pp. 13–18.
  • Mitchell Block (2006): The Truth about No Lies (If You Can Believe It). In: Juhasz, Alexandra; Lerner, Jesse (eds.) 2006: F is for Phony. Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 187–195, ISBN 978-0816642519

    • References

    No Lies Wikipedia
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    No Lies IMDb No Lies themoviedb.org