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Documentary Chris Ware

Cameraman

This American Life takes to the visual form in this Chris Ware-designed animation about a bizarre event at an elementary school when all the students suddenly took up playing with pretend video cameras.

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Documentary Chris Ware

Cameraman

This American Life takes to the visual form in this Chris Ware-designed animation about a bizarre event at an elementary school when all the students suddenly took up playing with pretend video cameras.

Cameraman

Directed By Chris Ware
Produced By This American Life
Made In USA

The popular NPR radio show, This American Life, has recently launched a spinoff television series through the cable network, Showtime. Cameraman, from episode 5, tells the story of G.J. Echternkamp and how a trend of fake news reporting overtakes his grade school classmates and a piece of their humanity.

Chris Ware, American cartoonist and graphic novelist, teamed up with animator, John Kuramoto, to create a simplified world of geometric-based illustration. It’s a chilling true life story told with playfully bold visuals.