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Mockumentary
see all genres ›These playfully fabricated tales told in the documentary style manipulate reality until you're not quite certain what "reality" is. Truth is funny. But faux-truth is funnier.
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Genres / Comedy / Mockumentary
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Being Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen stars as Michael Madsen, a famous movie star buckling under the pressures of tabloid rumors ranging from a gay romance to the murder of a young actress. Driven to the end of his rope, Michael Madsen decides it is time to turn the tables on the media and hires a team of documentarians to...Start your free trial to watch
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Blacksmithing Scene
That the old-fashioned blacksmith shop was the first subject to be shown in Edison's kinetoscope was a quiet kind of joke. The Edison Laboratory was the center of innovative technology in the late nineteenth century but here the laboratory staff takes some time off to play at blacksmithing and pass around...Start your free trial to watch
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Certifiably Jonathan
CERTIFIABLY JONATHAN is a comedy/mockumentary that weaves in and out of the bi-polar world of Jonathan Winters, where reality and fantasy collide. Jonathan Winters, 85-year-old comic genius, is also a gifted painter who dreams of having his work hang in the Museum of Modern Art. The filmmakers show his...Start your free trial to watch
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Chickens in the Shadows
In 1979, Toasters ‘N’ Moose formed, put out one album and disbanded. Now thirty years later, their old manager has brought them together again for a three-day tour of Northern California. Featuring their now classic hit “Taste the Biscuit” and live performances of many more great songs, our cameras follow...Start your free trial to watch
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Complicated Drumming Technique
Jens Hannemann knows everything there is to know about rudiments, hand-foot control, tempo, time signatures, cymbal and bell work, stick positioning, stick inspection, stage presence, jazz terms, rock terms, music reading, drum composition, drum notation, crowd work, drum tuning, equipment rental...Start your free trial to watch
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David Holzman's Diary
Jim McBride's brilliant cinéma vérité-esque independent film follows the titular character (charmingly portrayed by L.M. Kit Carson) as he documents his life. As news from the Vietnam War and social unrest blares over the radio, Holzman unloads comic-neurotic monologues to his 16mm camera. When his...Start your free trial to watch
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Dear Phone
In these thirteen accounts about the uses and misuses of the telephone, Peter Greenaway attempts to thwart and distort the philosophical notion of a “writers cinema” into what is pure Greenaway: teasing, eccentric and delightfully surreal. Featuring the quintessentially English red phone booth in an iconic performance and an...Start your free trial to watch
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Embrace of the Irrational
EMBRACE OF THE IRRATIONAL begins as what appears to be an hour long educational video written and directed by the fictitious Martin Thebes. It centers around a meditation on the Romantics' ideal of emotional confusion as a way to find truth. Then the film slowly unravels as the production becomes mired in...Start your free trial to watch
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H is for House
Returning to the house in his earlier film WINDOWS, Peter Greenaway demonstrates his love of the English countryside and displays a distinctive (if rare) autobiographical self with H IS FOR HOUSE. Envisioned as a living, breathing dictionary on film, this epistemological survey of the letter “H” represents Greenaway at his...Start your free trial to watch
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In Smog and Thunder
This devastatingly funny satire makes serious fun of traditional war documentaries, while taking aim at America's logo-crazed pop culture. In telling the saga of a fictitious Civil War between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Smogtown vs. Fogtown), the film lampoons the worldwide clash between Elitist New...Start your free trial to watch
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Inside Dope
A pseudo-educational, fictitious documentary survey of the ups, downs, ins and far-outs of Dope. Very funny and slightly sinister, like Red Skelton in the sky with diamonds. - Ron Padgett. With Jacob Burckhardt, Jim Carroll, Edwin Denby, William Dunas, Larry Fagin, Joan Fagin, Red Grooms, Yvonne Jacquette, Edmund Leites,...Start your free trial to watch
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Interkosmos
In the 1970s, the East Germans had a secret plan to establish Communist colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. These fabricated details are the grist for writer/director Jim Finn's first feature, an exceptional mockumentary that chronicles the cosmonaut era from an alternate universe replete with musical numbers and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mirrored Curtain
"Let's See It" on this brand new episode of TAKE ME THERE. Experience the duality of a singular location anywhere and all over the world where there's always something to see and almost everything to imagine. This is a travel show, marking an adventure to a place, a non-space, an unnamed border. Another...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mother of Invention
Meet Vincent Dooly (Andrew Bowser), an aspiring inventor who dreams of winning the Thomas Alva Edison Award for Young Inventors (or "Eddy"). A documentary crew follows Vincent in the last year that he is eligible to compete, at the same time following Martin Wooderson (Jimmi Simpson), a smug wunderkind...Start your free trial to watch
