Fielder Secretly Filmed Elizabeth Holmes Before Prison
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim secretly filmed Elizabeth Holmes inside her San Diego home 34 days before she began an 11-year prison sentence for Theranos fraud, according to Variety. Holmes and her partner Billy Evans invited the two directors and a small camera crew inside. The crew was tiny.
The result is You Can See Everything, co-directed by Fielder and Oppenheim. It runs 174 minutes, according to Variety, and it is Fielder's feature directorial debut. A24 is releasing the film, with a theatrical opening on October 16, according to FilmLinc.
The film arrived without warning. It had a surprise premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, then joined the Spotlight section of the 64th New York Film Festival. That festival ran from September 25 to October 12, and the film screened on September 30 at Alice Tully Hall, according to FilmLinc.
The shoot was built around staying out of the way. Only seven people made up the documentary crew, with just four inside the house at any time. They filmed for about 16 hours per day.
The team used three cameras with two operators. They assigned zones of the house and filmed with long zoom lenses in a fly-on-the-wall style, meaning the cameras watched daily life without stepping in to direct it.
The setup included a wide lens covering the whole house, plus 25mm to 250mm lenses that could take in a broad view or pull in close from a distance. Cinematographer David Bolen worked on the film. His earlier credits include Oppenheim's Primetime and the documentaries Spermworld and Some Kind of Heaven. Oppenheim has said the film was made over multiple years by the same group of about seven or eight people, according to Variety.
Holmes founded the medical testing company Theranos, according to The New York Times. She began her prison sentence on May 30, 2023, according to People.
What makes this stand out is the timing and the method. For viewers, this means long hours of home life in the final weeks before prison, captured by a crew small enough to fade into the background.
