Voyeur (2017)
This documentary tells the fascinating story of Gerald Foos, a man who bought a Colorado hotel in the 1960s, then spied on his guests’ intimate moments from an observation platform that allowed him to be a peeping Tom through their vents. He kept detailed journals of his unwitting subjects’ behavior, with the justification that it was valuable research into human behavior.
The film also chronicles his unlikely friendship with the brilliant New Yorker writer Gay Talese, author of the groundbreaking book Thy Neighbor’s Wife, about American sexual mores, as well as classic magazine features like “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.”
Through the course of the documentary, by directors Myles Kane and Josh Koury, Talese explains that as a journalist, “I’m a voyeur myself.” He wrote a lengthy feature about Foos that you can read here.
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