On May 30th 2005, Robert was a guest lecturer at the 11th Annual Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed International Conference at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel. The subject of this three day conference was "Creative Tools for Critical Times: Amnesia, Witness, Intervention." Robert was assigned to address the aesthetics and politics of witnessing. Throughout the two hour lecture and Q&A session, Robert discussed the importance of sharing untold stories and explained his role in revealing these stories to the public as a documentary filmmaker. This is a short segment from the lecture in which he spoke about the untold stories addressed in the film "Uncovered: The War on Iraq."