Your Opinion, Please
2026 · 14m · USA
Directed by Marshall Granger
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, melancholic
As America enters the new millennium, listeners across Montana call into Yellowstone Public Radio to express their views on everything from state politics to the Iraq war, or the meaning of poetry.
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Montana radio callers from 1999 accidentally document a civilization that has no idea what's about to happen to it — the Iraq war, the poetry, the complete absence of self-awareness — it's a time capsule that bites.
Granger constructs an accidental portrait of America sleepwalking into the 21st century from archival public radio call-ins — found-audio anthropology in the Errol Morris mode. Strangers talking into the void become a collective national document.
Found-audio docs live or die by the cut, and Granger's 14-minute weave of Yellowstone Public Radio call-ins promises a kind of accidental Studs Terkel — strangers talking into the void as inadvertent state-of-the-nation portrait. Vimeo Staff Pick context suggests the assembly is doing real work.