A series of documentary films about truth, fakes, and what's really real.
Thurs Aug 5th:
Fraud
A family's home movies document a desperate crime spree and a bid to outrun the consequences…Or do they?
"A FOUND-FOOTAGE THRILLER, EXCEPT THE FOOTAGE IS REAL AND THE THRILLER IS FABRICATED"
+ Personal Truth
+ Discussion with the filmmakers, Dean Fleischer-Camp and Charlie Shackleton
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Thurs Aug 26:
F is for Fake
Orson Welles gleefully reengages with the tenuous lines between illusion and truth, art and lies on a dizzying journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes
+ Fake News Fairytale
+ Discussion with Pamela Hutchinson, critic and film historian
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Thurs Sept 30:
A Glitch in the Matrix
If simulation theory is not science fiction but fact, and life is a video game being played by some unknowable entity, then who are we, really?
" A messy, mind-blowing collision of philosophy, technology, religion and fruit-loop paranoia"
+ Discussion with the filmmaker, Rodney Ascher
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Thurs Oct 28:
The Pain of Others
A YouTube compilation film about Morgellons, a mysterious illness whose sufferers say they have parasites under the skin, long colored fibers emerging from lesions, and a host of other bizarre symptoms
+ Taking Stock
+ Discussion with the filmmakers, Penny Lane and Duncan Cowles
