fake documentary
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Read More: #2: the fake news is very realBy this oxymoron I mean: that contemporary (and past) media manipulations and deceptions exist on the internet in increasing numbers and with expanding reach these have fomented crises during the…
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Read More: Playing the Pain Card: The Retraction of Ira Glass
This post is late in the news cycle of this media event because I tried, unsuccessfully, to publish it as an Op Ed. Enjoy! A few weeks ago, an unfortunate…
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Read More: Why I Won’t See Devil Inside: Because It’s Probably Dumb…I have some passing interest in horror (I teach a class on it), I am supposed to be an “expert” on fake documentaries, and my recent concern is user-made video.…
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Read More: It’s a Mystery to Me: les clesThe third day of my show PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces brought this remarkable and unexpected video by Shu Lea Cheang. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk7TOUiQ7-Q&w=425&h=349] Unexpected in two senses. First, I had…
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Read More: Playing the Sincerity Card in Cedar Rapids
Across this blog and throughout my video-book I’ve worried about the “ironic free-fall” currently defining video on YouTube and the mediascape more generally. I’ve suggested that the hold of the…
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Read More: In That Giftshop is not a Doc It Should Win The Documentary Oscar
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fake documentary artfully mixing staged and true realist documents that represent the art market’s inability to–or need for–discerning talent, value, honesty, and “truth”…
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Read More: Casey Affleck’s “Big” Reveal: Fake Doc, Joaquin’s Tummy or Tranny Prostitutes?
It came as no surprise to me when Casey Affleck at long last spilled the beans: that his tawdry expose of Joaquin Phoenix’s bad-boy decent into star-boy-debauchery was, in fact,…
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Read More: District 9: Faking the FutureDistrict 9—a scary, literally-allegorical (what is that!), sci-fi blood-fest—is also told, sort of, through the structure of a fake doc. It’s also terrific. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlgtbEdqVsk&hl=en&fs=1&] Because the faked reality is a…