Billy Corgan

What do you think of the modern form of the documentary?

I mean, in my mind, the rise of Netflix sort of ushered forth this whole new generation of documentary films, but also this maybe like now you're getting into different takes on how to make a documentary.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Have you seen this documentary?

I think it's called The Mother of All Lives.

It was made by, I think, maybe it was a Moroccan filmmaker.

It's very interesting because in her case, she didn't have, there was no archival footage.

It was about a massacre that happened in her village before she was born, but severely affected her family.

So her and her father built this set.

And through the use of like handmade dolls and the setting of what the village looked like at the time, she recreates the emotional narrative of what happened to her family in the village.

But she had no, she didn't even have one piece of documentary footage.

And I thought it was so groundbreaking because, you know, the first thing is a documentary person.

And I've obviously done stuff with my band.

It's like, you know, it's like, you're like, I wish we had that.

moment of you shaking so-and-so's hand.

You know, there's always that moment in any kind of documentary stuff.

Like, if only somebody had taken a picture.

And all she had for the whole film was one photo that somebody sneakily took of people lying dead on the street from the massacre.

But that's all she had.