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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Windows
Peter Greenaway goes macabre and slightly political in this darkly funny early short. Inspired by a 1960s headline involving a rash of mysterious fatalities among South African inmates, WINDOWS wryly unspools the stories of thirty-seven people who fell to their deaths from windows. Juxtaposing...Watch Movie
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Computer Chess
Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, COMPUTER CHESS transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of...Watch Movie
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The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal
Emerging from the human psyche and showing characteristics of abstract expressionism, minimalism and Russian constructivism, graffiti removal has secured its place in the history of modern art while being created by artists who are unconscious of their artistic achievements....Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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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”...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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We are Not Having Any Trouble in Our Department Despite What You've Heard
Artist and filmmaker Jonn Herschend offers a delightful musing on the emotional agendas that often underlie professional relationships. A promotional video for a Danish art museum in which the spokeswoman discusses the evolution of the museum turns into a literal battle over a...Watch Movie
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Vertical Features Remake
A mocking parody of the fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration's several attempts to reconstruct (Peter Greenaway alter-ego) Tulse Luper's study of the aesthetic and ecological significance of various trees, posts and poles on the English landscape. Greenaway shows...Watch Movie
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Pastoral no.5
An open glade with a couple making out on a blanket foregrounds a lovely wooded hill that filmmaker, visual artist and interdisciplinarian Jonn Herschend frames for another of his chronicles of dysfunction in the workplace. The director of a film using the park as a location calls action and a...Watch Movie
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The Ralph Handel Story
Benny Safdie’s deadpan spoof of stand-up comedy and staged cinéma verité verges on performance art. His Ralph Handel is a humorless white-collar worker who unaccountably spends his nights working the open mic circuit. Safdie bravely committed himself to actual nightclubs for...Watch Movie
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This is My Show
WORKING WITH NATURE can be grueling and painful, but your host Adrienne Edmunds is ready and willing to walk you through what it takes to perfect and control your surroundings. Adrienne brings you the very best in high quality, high definition gardening television as she takes all of the...Watch Movie
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Karl Rove, I Love You
It's Election Year during the Bush Administration. Dan Butler is co-starring on Broadway with Alec Baldwin in "Twentieth Century." Butler reluctantly agrees to participate in a documentary on the "unknown supporting actor" when he becomes smitten with the role of a lifetime:...Watch Movie
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Hard Core Logo
The THIS IS SPINAL TAP of Canadian punk mockumentaries is about a legendary (but fictive) Canuck hardcore unit that reunites years after its acrimonious breakup to play a one-shot benefit and play such ramalama hits as "Something's Gonna Die Tonight," "Rock 'n' Roll is Fat and Ugly" and "Who the...Watch Movie
