However, it’s not called Icarus for no reason. Fogel more or less turned himself into an undercover reporter tasked with looking into just how easy it is for athletes to cheat the system, not just in cycling but across all manner of sport, and what exactly testing agencies can do to make it harder.Ĭonsidering the way doping scandals continue to taint the Olympics and other sporting events, this all sounds like a perfectly timely documentary. It was just supposed to be a real-world experiment in which he acted as the test subject, filming his progress every step of the way. In his new documentary, Icarus, which just premiered at Sundance, Fogel set out to see far he could make it as a cyclist on performance-enhancing drugs without being caught by one of the agencies responsible for testing athletes.
You can make yourself a part of the story, should the story warrant the intrusion, which is exactly what filmmaker and cycling enthusiast Bryan Fogel intended to do.
You don’t just have to point the camera at people and listen to them talk or watch as they go about their lives. Ever since Michael Moore turned the camera on himself in Roger & Me and Morgan Spurlock embarked on his McDonalds experiment in Super Size Me the door has been kicked open for what can be considered acceptable in the documentary format.
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