Watching Icarus

• Uses video dairies
• Phone portrait footage at wedding of dancing, building to being taken down by WADA
• Telling story through filmmakers interactions with characters
• Use of news footage
• archive pics of Gregory's past
• use of skype - liveness gives sense of urgency
• When the investigation is finished it becomes a different story - politics and danger
• uses phone calls and footage without people
• Filmaker books ticket has him to stay on the phone, produer talking to ed snowdens lawyer
• Gregory in silhouette on phone to wife
• Returns to Orwell htroughout
• Then form changes - sit down interview with Gregory
• Uses animation talking about suicide attempt and mental illness
• Film's legal counsel interviewed
• animation of sochi reconstruction
• shows the stakes and the aftermath
• russian news of hacked
• filmmaker talking on behalf of grigory
• trial in press coverage
• Sad french music as grigory goes into witness protection
• poetic montage with 1984 as voiceover