Nathan Fielder is turning his famously uncomfortable approach to reality into a new documentary focused on one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious figures: Elizabeth Holmes.
A24 has revealed You Can See Everything, a documentary made by Fielder and filmmaker Lance Oppenheim that follows the convicted Theranos founder during the final weeks before she entered federal prison and beyond.
The project remained largely under wraps during approximately three years of production. Its starting point came just 34 days before Holmes was due to report to prison, when the filmmakers received extensive access to her life.
That access appears to have produced something considerably stranger than a conventional rise-and-fall documentary.
The first teaser places Holmes directly opposite Fielder for an intensely awkward conversation about honesty, deception and whether she is presenting her authentic self. It is precisely the sort of uncomfortable territory Fielder has spent years exploring, although the real-world stakes surrounding Holmes make this project markedly different from his previous work.
Fielder built his reputation through projects including Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, combining documentary techniques with elaborate scenarios that make it increasingly difficult to determine where ordinary behavior ends and performance begins. Putting that approach alongside Holmes, whose public persona became inseparable from the Theranos scandal, gives the new film an unusual dynamic.
Holmes was convicted in January 2022 on four counts involving fraud and conspiracy after prosecutors accused her of deceiving investors about the capabilities of Theranos’ blood-testing technology. She began serving her federal prison sentence in May 2023.
You Can See Everything received an appropriately unconventional introduction when it premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. The identity of the film was kept secret until the screening began, adding another layer of mystery to a project that had already avoided public attention throughout production.
After the screening, Fielder acknowledged that even he was still trying to make sense of the experience of making the documentary.
The teaser has now given audiences their first taste of why.
Early online reactions have centered on the sheer discomfort of watching Fielder and Holmes interact. Rather than presenting Holmes entirely through archival footage or outside commentary, the film appears prepared to put viewers directly into conversations where questions about authenticity and manipulation remain hanging in the air.
That could make You Can See Everything one of the more unusual additions to the already extensive collection of films, television projects and reporting inspired by the Theranos scandal.
Audiences will get the opportunity to judge the encounter for themselves when You Can See Everything arrives in theaters in October.
