Film Review “You Can See Everything” is toted as a documentary, but is Fielder a performance artist playing a documentarian?

October 26, 2026 — 5 min read

Still from You Can See Everything (2026), dir. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim (image courtesy A24)

As an art historian, it's hard not to relate what you see in everyday life to history — not in the sense that every lily pad recalls Monet or snowballs bring David Hammons to mind, but in the sense that sometimes art really does imitate life. This happened to me recently, maybe 10 minutes into Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything . I watched Fielder hold painful, prolonged eye contact with Elizabeth Holmes, the convicted fraudster whose eerily large blue eyes seem to enact their own kind of performance. Naturally, I thought of Marina Abramović’s “The Artist is Present” (2010). Perhaps it’s an obvious, pretentious comparison.…