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No Lies
DVD Cover
Directed byMitchell Block
Written byMitchell Block
Produced byMitchell Block
StarringShelby Leverington
CinematographyAlec Hirschfeld
Edited byRay Anne School
Distributed byDirect Cinema Ltd.
Release date
  • May 1973 (1973-05)
Running time
16 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

No Lies is a 1973 short dramatic film made by Mitchell Block while he was a student at New York University. The film, which is in the style of a cinéma vérité interview, deals with a young woman who has been raped and has been widely viewed by nurses, therapists and police officers.

In 2008, No Lies... was selected for inclusion by the United States Library of Congress to its National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[1]

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Literature

  • Vivian Sobchack (1977): No Lies. Direct Cinema as Rape. In: Journal of the University Film Association 29.4 (1977): pp. 13–18.
  • Mitchell Block (2006): The Truth about No Lies (If You Can Believe It). In: Juhasz, Alexandra; Lerner, Jesse (eds.) 2006: F is for Phony. Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 187–195, ISBN 978-0816642519