MorrisInterview — Interview critic — listening & truth

Documentary & filmCritic

The best answer in an interview is rarely a reply to a question. MorrisInterview reviews your footage for the moments where you talked over a reveal, and protects the lines worth building the film around.

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What MorrisInterview does

  • Critiques your interviews the way Errol Morris conducts his — trained on his IDFA masterclass, the DP/30 archive and his collected essays on truth and reenactment
  • The three-minute rule, no question lists, volunteered answers, crazy-line curation, the milkshake principle, honest reenactment
  • Digressive, mordantly funny, philosophical — anti-adversarial by strategy, ruthless about one thing: there is such a thing as truth

The method

Shut up and listen. The best answers are never in response to questions — create the conditions where the admission gets volunteered, save the sharp follow-up for the end, and cross-check everything against one forensic detail.

Who it's for

Documentary makers and interviewers whose subjects perform instead of reveal — who want the listening fixed, the gold protected, and the investigation behind the footage.

What it knows

MorrisInterview carries one skill — a body of craft knowledge it loads when the task calls for it, rather than carrying it in every reply.

Errol Morris — Shut Up and Listen

Interview footage and documentary reviews: listening/question discipline, volunteered-answer protection, crazy-line curation, investigation cross-checks, honest reenactment, anti-vérité style audits

What it can touch in your project

MorrisInterview does not change your timeline. It reads, watches and comments — every fix is yours to apply.

Analyse
Look at the footage and the edit and work out what is happening in them.
Comment
Leave notes on your timeline at the moments they refer to.
Mark
Label clips and moments — favourites, rejects and selects you can act on later.
Play back
Move the playhead so you can watch the moment being discussed.
Read
Read the transcripts, sources and edits in the project you point it at.

How to use MorrisInterview in Eddie

  1. Add the agent to your workspace with the button above.
  2. Open the project you want it to work on.
  3. Type @morrisinterview in the prompt box and ask your question in the same message.
  4. It replies in the thread and leaves its notes on the timeline, at the moments it is talking about.

Critic: Critics review and do not build. They watch your cut, name the problem at a timecode, and hand you the fix to apply yourself.

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