Nathan Fielder and filmmaker Lance Oppenheim have upended the cultural conversation surrounding Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes with a top-secret documentary titled You Can See Everything. The 174-minute feature made its unannounced debut at the Telluride Film Festival, catching audiences completely off guard inside the Werner Herzog Theater on a Sunday night. Ahead of the project’s October theatrical release through A24, a bizarre initial teaser trailer has dropped, signaling a uniquely unsettling cinematic experience that pushes the boundaries of reality and performance.
For years, speculation swirled regarding Fielder’s whereabouts and sudden sightings visiting Holmes at FPC Bryan, the federal prison camp in Texas where she began serving an 11-year sentence in 2023 for defrauding investors. Those rumors were finally put to rest when Festival Director Julie Huntsinger unveiled the surprise screening in Colorado. Festivalgoers were required to surrender their mobile phones before entering the theater to preserve the total secrecy of the project.
The documentary plunges viewers into the tense, surreal days immediately preceding Holmes’s incarceration. With a logline describing a “mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss,” the film captures a skeptical film crew embedded directly within Holmes and her husband Billy Evans’s household in San Diego as they raised their two young children. Fielder even lived at the family home during the final days before Holmes turned herself in to authorities.
Inside the Bizarre Production and Unrestricted Access
Holmes and Evans granted Fielder and Oppenheim unrestricted access to their lives in an attempt to combat and refute the media narrative that had previously crystalized around her downfall—including popular portrayals like the Hulu series starring Amanda Seyfried. Throughout the extensive runtime, the entrepreneur and her husband discuss plans to pursue a brand-new iteration of health technology, entirely unfazed by the imminent reality of federal prison.
The project heavily reflects Fielder’s signature style, utilizing uncanny reenactments reminiscent of his series The Rehearsal to bridge gaps where actual footage was impossible to capture. Fielder’s extensive body of work—including Nathan for You and The Curse—has long toyed with psychological discomfort and the blurred lines between authenticity and staging. Paired with Oppenheim, whose past documentary credits feature Some Kind of Heaven, Spermworld, and Ren Faire, the collaboration merges two distinct lenses focused on eccentric figures and insular communities.
Twists, Revelations, and Future Outlook
The narrative grows increasingly complex following Holmes’s surrender. The documentary introduces an abrupt and shocking twist involving a notable Hollywood actress, whose identity was strictly guarded by the directors during the post-screening Q&A moderated by Emma Stone. Furthermore, Fielder’s investigation uncovers surprising dynamics within the household, particularly suggesting that Evans maintained a heavy, highly involved hand in managing Holmes’s public image and social media presence, including her Twitter account.
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Speaking about the chaotic creative process, Fielder explained during the post-screening discussion that the crew themselves struggled to process what they witnessed firsthand. “Lance and I would talk with the rest of the crew about what we thought happened or what we thought these moments meant, and no one could reach a consensus,” Fielder noted. “And that’s when we really realized, ‘Oh, this is really interesting to follow this. We’re all smart and we’re really working at the top of our intelligence—why can’t we make sense of what’s happening in this house?'”
As A24 prepares to bring You Can See Everything to commercial theaters this October, audiences nationwide will soon grapple with the same unsettling questions that mystified festivalgoers in Telluride. Share your thoughts on this unexpected cinematic crossover in the comments below, and join the conversation by sharing this report.
