Episode 3: Tickled & Catfish

Published: June 2, 2016, 5:53 a.m.

b'William Chen, Jeremy Downing, Max Tarrant and Sarah Watt discuss the films Tickled (2016) and Catfish (2010). Both films are documentaries and deal with online manipulation. The discussion touches on a number of topics, including: how film creates a sense of place; the universal struggle of bullying; how truth is created in documentary filmmaking; creating online personas with varying levels of resources; differences in class; tension in documentary; the desire to investigate the truth when you have been \\u201cduped\\u201d; \\u201ccatfish\\u201d becoming a verb; what is morally okay to reveal in documentary filmmaking; how both films capture a sense of humanity; the various uses of a camera in a coffee cup; and the ethics of recording people without their knowledge.'