Though Gibney's bombshell revelations were preempted by news reports, he nonetheless paints a terrifying picture of a near-future (i.e.
If Stuxnet seemed like something out of a 007 adventure, its capabilities-it could operate without being connected to the Internet, and it was programmed to fulfill its mission without any input from a human user-seemed more apt for a techno-horror film. While his prolific productivity often hampers quality, he proves to be in fine form with Zero Days, a suspenseful behind-the-scenes account of the Stuxnet worm, a deadly computer virus that was discovered by a Belarus security expert, and which turned out to be the means by which the U.S government hacked, and sabotaged, Iran's Natanz nuclear facilities. Then again, is Sheil even acting in these supposedly candid moments? Greene's inquisitive, haunting film remains ambiguous to its end.Īlex Gibney is a one-man documentary cottage industry, churning out movies at a speed that makes even Woody Allen's one-feature-a-year pace look lazy by comparison. Before long, the actress is wracked by doubts about the usefulness-and responsibility-of re-enacting a public suicide that Chubbock meant to serve as a critique of media bloodlust, but has in subsequent years arguably become an example of the very thing it was intended to censure. As she researches and rehearses for this role, Sheil expresses sentiments (about being viewed as manly, and about her desire to be seen) that echo those reportedly felt by Chubbock.
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Documentarian Robert Greene's 2014 release Actress was concerned with the blurry line between reality and fiction, and that boundary is re-addressed, in even more compelling form, in Kate Plays Christine, a quasi-documentary in which actress Kate Lyn Sheil prepares to star in a (not-real) biopic about Christine Chubbuck, the Sarasota, Florida TV newscaster who notoriously killed herself on-air in 1974.
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