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War Game 2024
"I think of filmmaking as a kind of levitation act; you need partners who share your miraculous beliefs. Tony and I previously lived in the Army’s Iraq War training simulation town when making Full Battle Rattle, so I knew I had somebody who would jump with me, and he has great relationships in the New York theater world. We brought brilliant production designers and, I think, the best documentary camera operators in the world into this room and said, “We don’t know what’s going to happen, but shoot the hell out of it.”"
filmmakermagazine.com/126824-interview-jesse-moss-tony-gerber-on-war-game/
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Hollywoodgate 2023
"That idea of narrativizing one’s own life is also expressed outright by Mansour, whose civilian father was killed by a bomb dropped by an American airplane, and who now sees a divine poetry in commanding planes that can drop bombs. Moments like these are the most illuminative of the Taliban mindset, wherein the idea of one’s life being a story is wrapped up in both religious and nationalist fervor. Such moments are scattered among more surreal, sometimes comical episodes —…
