Four recent releases explore what happens when artists come to town to turn your life into their art.

Subject interviews a rolodex of famous figures from popular 21st century documentaries, querying them about the experience of filming their movies and how the fallout affected their personal lives.

While Subject provides a comparative mosaic of their answers, Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later burrows into one such example, catching up with the participants of 2005’s The Aggressives.

While the focus of these two is more post-facto, Four Daughters ropes in a similar focus as a part of its current documentation; the movie attempts to retroactively chronicle the traumatic lives of a Tunisian family — half of the runtime re-enacts these events, while the other half diagnoses the impact such re-enacting has on the real family.

And while May December isn’t a documentary, it depicts exactly what we’re talking about here: an actor entangles herself within the lives of people she plans to adapt into a movie, and her researching unmoors their existence to such a degree that they begin to re-search themselves and each other.