{"id":431,"date":"2021-04-08T08:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:47:15","slug":"documentary-ethics-with-miriam-guttmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/documentary-ethics-with-miriam-guttmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary Ethics (with  Miriam Guttmann)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We are delighted to welcome <strong>Miriam Guttmann<\/strong>, director of the recent VPRO documentary Seeds of Deceit (Het Zaat Van Karbaat), who joins us for a discussion on the ethics of documentary-making. Miriam provides a very candid insight into the large web of complexities she found herself navigating through, during the filming of her Sundance selected film. In this episode we explore the purpose of a documentary maker, a director\u2019s relationship to the characters of the story they\u2019re directing and where their duty lies. We unpack these more abstract questions through the lens of Miriam\u2019s brilliant short docu-series, so make sure to check it out!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/nl\/podcast\/celebrating-cinema\/id1558165273\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffc8dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/nl\/podcast\/celebrating-cinema\/id1558165273 noopener\">Subscribe to our podcast<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/06\/ethics-in-documentary-filmmaking-how-far-is-too-far\/\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffc8dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/nl\/podcast\/celebrating-cinema\/id1558165273 noopener\">Read the Cold Open<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Documentary Ethics (with Miriam Guttmann) \" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/1iT76lmSQrITAVM1vwdczh?si=lkbW32uRTQ2XpgafIuLPOQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our guest<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-asset-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-asset-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-asset-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-asset-1-500x667.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-asset-1-360x480.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-asset-1.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miriam Guttmann (1994) is a Dutch documentary filmmaker based in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2018 with the short film&nbsp;<strong>Seeds of Deceit<\/strong><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>which won various international prizes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three-part series <strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpro.nl\/programmas\/het-zaad-van-karbaat.html\">Seeds of Deceit<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> with the same title, that Miriam made as a sequel to her short film is the first Dutch series ever to be selected for the prestigious Sundance Film Festival where it premiered in January 2021. The series was broadcasted on Dutch television by the VPRO early 2021. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next episode<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We get that Oscar fever and so it&#8217;s only right we unpack the Academy Awards &#8211; the good the bad and the ugly. We explore their finest and most disappointing moments and how the industry tends to commodify its players.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/congress-poster-208x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/congress-poster-208x300.jpeg 208w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/congress-poster-712x1024.jpeg 712w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/congress-poster-768x1105.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/congress-poster-500x720.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/congress-poster-334x480.jpeg 334w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/congress-poster.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\">Film Club<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writer\/director Ari Folman adapts prophetic science-fiction author Stanislaw Lem&#8217;s novel The Futurological Congress to tell the tale of an actress (Robin Wright) who sells her likeness to a powerful film studio, which in turn transforms her essence into a chemical compound suitable for consumption by the masses. Harvey Keitel, Danny Huston, Jon Hamm, and Paul Giamatti co-star in this ambitious feature that blends live-action with animation to offer a cautionary look at the future of entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Films mentioned<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Seeds Of Deceit (Miriam Guttmann, 2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sex And The City (Michael Patrick King, 2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Act Of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Casting Jon Benet (Kitty Green, 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Assistant (Kitty Green, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Congress (Ari Folman, 2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our hosts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" data-id=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CelebratingCinema_BW_Tom.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-413\" 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480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption\">from left to right: Tom Ooms (film programmer), Hugo Emmerzael (film critic) Kiriko Mechanicus (film maker), Elliot Bloom (podcast producer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to welcome Miriam Guttmann, director of the recent VPRO documentary Seeds of Deceit (Het Zaat Van Karbaat), who joins us for a discussion on the ethics of documentary-making. Miriam provides a very candid insight into the large web of complexities she found herself navigating through, during the filming of her Sundance selected film. In this episode we explore the purpose of a documentary maker, a director\u2019s relationship to the characters of the story they\u2019re directing and where their duty lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"page\/page-gutenberg.php","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episodes","post_format-post-format-audio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}