I originally posted this on Extra Criticum, a blog about the performing arts written by performing artists. I write about film mostly. This post is dated April 1, 2009.
Two things you may not know about me. One, I’m making a documentary and two, I’m addicted to Facebook.
I imagined when I finished the documentary, sometime before 2525, I’d use FB as another promotion tool. If I thought about it at all, this was how I thought these two things in my life would collide.
But there I was the other day, searching for people to befriend, when out of curiosity I searched for one of the subjects of my documentary. And of course, like the rest of the world, there he was.
So, will I cross some kind of subject-filmmaker line if I ask him to be my friend? What would Errol Morris do?
This post garnered some interesting comments and suggestions. I deliberated and deliberated and this weekend I became a Facebook friend with a subject’s significant other. (The subject is not on Facebook.)
I still don’t know what Errol Morris would do, though.