No Lies

No Lies is a 1973 American short drama film made by Mitchell Block while he was a student at New York University.

Summary
The film, which is in the style of a cinéma vérité interview by a young filmmaker, deals with a young woman who has been raped and the trauma that came with it.

Legacy
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."

In 2016, film critics for the website IndieWire selected No Lies as one of the ten best short films ever made.

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