Not sure how you're going to survive the next two-thirds of a year until the Full Frame Festival comes back to downtown in the spring? Or are you just so flummoxed by the political theater of the last month that you'd like to see reality-bending material in a different context?
Well, Full Frame's got you covered, with the arrival this fall of "It's All Bull," a three-month series of some of the most acclaimed "mockumentaries" in history.
As the folks at the Duke-sponsored documentary festival put it:
Join Full Frame in appreciating a few of fiction’s finest tributes to the documentary form. From ruthless rock’n’rollers to a chameleon like psychiatry case to an adept art forger, each film provides its own exaggeration of typical documentary structure and invites us to consider fact, fiction, and documentation. After all, who said the truth had to be real?
The series runs the second Wednesday of each month, September through November, at 8pm at American Tobacco's Bay 7, kicking off this week:
- Sep. 9: Rob Reiner's "This is Spinal Tap," a send-up of the world of rock music and the oh-so-serious documentaries of it.
- Oct. 14: Woody Allen's "Zeilg," the director's 1983 interweaving of new footage into newsreels to tell a faux-story of a man who is purportedly afflicted by a disease that changes his physiognomy to resemble that of those around him.
- Nov. 11: Orson Welles' "F for Fake," the director's last film and a harbinger of modern editing techniques used long after its 1970s debut.
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