In Conversation with Julia Loktev About the Nuts and Bolts of Making Part 1 (5 12 hours) of her Monumental Vrit Documentary, My Undesirable Friends Frederick Wiseman Weighs In, Too

Watching the world premiere of My Undesirable Friends: Part I Last Air in Moscow last September in the Main Slate of the 62nd New York Film Festival, I knew I was experiencing a milestone in vrit documentary filmmaking. Not because My Undesirable Friends was filmed using an iPhone per se. Filming with iPhones is a commonplace now, from this summers Danny Boyle hit, 28 Years Later, to Aardmans latest Wallace & Gromit animation. Last Aprils NAB show delivered booths full of iPhone cages, gimbals, ...