Kate Plays Christine

Synopsis: Documentary by Robert Greene about the on-air suicide of American newsreader Christine Chubbuck. Chubbuck, who was a news reporter for a local television station in Florida shot herself live on air in 1974. Greene approaches his subject by filming actress Kate Lyn Shiel as she prepares to play Chubbuck in a film. The purported film is a fiction - a device to enable Greene to approach the truth about Chubbuck’s shocking death in an oblique manner which aims to reveal the truth about the affair in a more enlightening, less sensational way than perhaps a more traditional approach would have done.
Language: English
Country: United States
Year of release: 2016
Notes: Includes ‘making of’ featurette as well as Robert Greene’s 2014 film ACTRESS
Subjects: Media studies
Keywords: acting; documentary films; news reporting; suicide; docudrama

Director

Robert Greene

Cast

Kate Lyn Shiel

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