Rangan's talk, drawn from a book coauthored with Brett Story, examines the contradictions of documentary “access” as both moral imperative and coveted cinematic currency. Prompted by a case in which an Afghan informant was allegedly identified and killed after appearing in a U.S. war documentary, it treats access to restricted or dangerous environments—especially prisons—as a governing and often compromised logic of production. Tracing its legal history back to Titicut Follies (1967), Rangan argues that carceral access neoliberalizes documentary by recasting…