Independent Lens
The Strike
The Strike illuminates the power of organizing in this story about 30,000 California incarcerated people resisting against decades-long solitary confinement.
Stranger with a Camera
By examining a single incident — the 1967 murder of a documentary filmmaker by an eastern Kentucky landowner — Stranger with a Camera raises questions about representation and interrogates the documentary medium itself.
- Series
- POV
- Premiere Date
- July 11, 2000
- Length
- 60 minutes
- Funding Initiative
- Open Call
Producer
Elizabeth Barret
Producer
Judi Jennings
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The Film
In Jeremiah, Kentucky, in 1967, a local landowner named Hobart Ison shot and killed documentary filmmaker Hugh O'Connor. The two men had met only minutes before the murder — shortly after O'Connor and his crew interviewed a poor family renting property from Ison. By considering this single act of violence, Stranger with a Camera spotlights the complex role media depictions play in society, and the responsibilities that those who produce media must assume.
