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Pseudo-pseudodocumentary
see all genres ›Setting aside “good taste” for better flavor, the cult film gains its name from the cult-like following it can inspire. Ritualistic midnight screenings are historically crucial ingredients for a film cult to develop. Cohering around particular directors, actors, genres and subcultures, the cult film manages to entertain via nostalgia long after the “use by” date has passed.
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The Bell Rang to an Empty Sky
THE BELL RANG TO AN EMPTY SKY has taken one of the many tragedies buried in American history which befell the American Indian and, through the voice of Dennis Banks, creates a tight and perceptive visual and aural telling and interpretation of events. The selection of images (the iconography and meaning,...Start your free trial to watch
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Blue Parrot
In a long career that has moved from film to digital and from long form to (increasingly) short form, experimental filmmaker Walter Ungerer's BLUE PARROT finds him transitioning into the existential present with a vengeance. BLUE PARROT's title character has a only a few seconds of screen time as Ungerer offers an...Start your free trial to watch
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Commute
A key figure at the inception of San Francisco avant-garde film in the 1960s, Bruce Baillie finds beauty in the everyday, even challenging the notion that there is anything "avant-garde" about recording the world as it is. Baillie, in cartoonish drag, badly lipsynchs an overture to COMMUTE, mocking the viewer with the Cole...Start your free trial to watch
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Cuban Rebel Girls
No one would likely ever claim that CUBAN REBEL GIRLS is a good film. The title, alone, should be a bit of a giveaway. But it is a fascinating story, regardless. This curious effort was the final film by actor (and, in this case, writer) Errol Flynn. Flynn portrays a war correspondent in Cuba intent on...Start your free trial to watch
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Double Take
An Official Selection at both the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, Johan Grimonprez's DOUBLE TAKE is a unique film that combines early 60's advertising, hysterical Red Menace newsreels and Alfred Hitchcock (featuring his hilarious introductions to his TV show and movies, and interviews with actual Hitchcock impersonator...Start your free trial to watch
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From the Journals of Jean Seberg
An unmistakable master of the intersection between documentary and narrative, Mark Rappaport easily ranks among the great filmmakers of our time. As Jonathan Rosenbaum noted in the introduction to his Cineaste interview with the director from 1996, "Rappaport virtually invented a new form of film criticism...Start your free trial to watch
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The Juche Idea
Jim Finn's THE JUCHE IDEA is an uproarious and provocative deconstruction of North Korean propaganda and philosophy. Mixing together eye-popping archival footage with deadpan re-enactments, Finn has created a complex docu-fiction that is equally thought-provoking and entertaining. Translated as "self-reliance," Juche...Start your free trial to watch
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Kick That Habit
KICK THAT HABIT is a film created in the bleak eastern region of Switzerland. At first, a group plays a game of mini-golf, then the Swiss musicians Voice Crack (Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl) rehearse in the studio, afterward heading up to Alpstein, at which point you are right in the middle of a concert, next stepping away...Start your free trial to watch
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Winsor McCay and His Animated Pictures
The legendary Winsor McCay takes a bet from his (seemingly pompous) friends that he can create an animated film in short order. While not a documentary in the strictest sense, ...AND HIS ANIMATED PICTURES (otherwise displaying its alternate title in the opening card) does present some ersatz evidence of...Start your free trial to watch
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¡O No Coronado!
This black-comic Conquistador chronicle aggressively reconstructs the 1540 Spanish invasion of those Pueblo Indian lands now known as the American Southwest through a multifarious, mixed-tense montage. Live-action vignettes are densely woven into wildly diverse "found" footage, video-to-film FX and a time-warped musical mix...Start your free trial to watch
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Rock Hudson's Home Movies
“It was all up there,” says Rock Hudson (Eric Farr) at the start of this rule-breaking, dizzying assortment of clips from Rock Hudson’s Hollywood career that make up Mark Rappaport’s feature film, ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES. Employing a narrative commentary from beyond the grave, the film invents an...Start your free trial to watch
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RocketKitKongoKit
This kaleidoscopic, amphetamine-paced tour de force uses a barrage of found-footage images and rapid-fire narration to trace a history of Zaire since its independence in 1960. The CIA, German munitions manufacturers and American popular culture are all indicted in this comic critique of neo-colonialism....Start your free trial to watch
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Spectres of the Spectrum
The director of TRIBULATION 99 and SONIC OUTLAWS returns with his grandest work to date! SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM plunders Craig Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage,...Start your free trial to watch
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Tribulation 99
Upon its release in 1991, TRIBULATION 99 became an instant counter-culture classic. Craig Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudodocumentary” presents a factual chronicle of U.S. intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle...Start your free trial to watch
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Wild Gunman
Mobilizing wildly diverse found-footage fragments, obsessive optical printing and a dense "musique concrete" soundtrack, a maniac montage of pop-cultural amusements, cowboy iconography and advertising imagery is re-contextualized within the contemporary geopolitical crisis in this scathing critique of U.S. cultural and...Start your free trial to watch