Stranger With A Camera

Stranger With A Camera is a 2000 documentary film by director Elizabeth Barret investigating the circumstances surrounding the 1967 death of Hugh OConnor. Barret, who was born and raised in the region, explores questions concerning public image and the individuals lack of power to define oneself within the American media landscape.

Stranger with a Camera explores the conditions that fueled the murder of Canadian filmmaker Hugh OConnor as well as the implications his death has for filmmakers.The film begins by chronicling the details of the incident. In 1967, OConnor and his crew were working on a film called US that sought to depict the variety of people across the United States. While in eastern Kentucky, they filmed coal miners and their families. One afternoon, they stopped on the side of the road to film a family living in a rental house in Jeremiah, Kentucky. Although the filmmakers received permission of the family to film, the failed to receive it from the landowner, Hobart Ison. As the filmmakers were leaving, Ison drove up and fired three shots, killing Hugh OConnor. ........

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