Guy Lochhead, 06/07/10
American documentary film director. The completion of his first film famously led Werner Herzog to eat his shoe in front of an audience of film students. He invented the ‘Interrotron’, which enables interviewees to look simultaneously directly into a camera lens, and at an image of their interviewer. He’s most famous for ‘Gates of Heaven’ and ‘The Thin Blue Line’. He’s also made loads of adverts. Morris is a wonderfully talented filmmaker, but the fact he’s made commercial films for Nike etc. damages my reputation of him. I will, however, include ‘Gates of Heaven’, and is TV series ‘First Person’, but I will write about these separately.