Amy and Maradonna filmmaker Asif Kapadia has said he believes “all documentaries are fake”.The director reflected on the truth in his films, including the 2015 film about Amy Winehouse and last year’s Maradonna about notorious footballer Diego Maradonna.“There is more construction that goes into one of my documentaries than in a fiction film,” Kapadia told Submarine Channel. “There is the misconception that somehow documentaries are real.
Everything is fake. Everything is constructed.“You have to fake everything to make reality. The fact that there’s a camera present will irremediably change the situation.”Explaining specifically how editing and sound design affects his process, Kapadia continued: “You still have ‘to cheat’.
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