{"id":512,"date":"2012-01-30T18:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/archive\/?p=512"},"modified":"2012-03-09T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T11:37:19","slug":"issue-59-fake-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/archive\/2012\/01\/30\/issue-59-fake-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 59: Fake Documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Punishment Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\nTheme: Fake Documentaries<\/b>
\n–Punishment Park<\/I><\/A>
\n–I’m Still Here<\/I><\/A>
\n–AFR<\/I><\/A>
\n–Ghostwatch<\/I><\/A>
\n–The Curse<\/I><\/A>
\n–Troll Hunter<\/I><\/A>

\nInterview<\/b>
\nMonte Hellman<\/A>

\nFilm Reviews<\/b>
\n–L’atalante<\/I><\/A>
\n–Shame<\/I><\/A>
\n–Tatsumi<\/I><\/A>
\n–Margin Call<\/I><\/A>
\n–Cross of Love<\/I><\/A>

\nDVD Review<\/b>
\nTwo-Lane Blacktop<\/I><\/A><\/A>

\nFeatures<\/B>
\n–Everybody Dies<\/A>
\n–George Hardy by Dan Sartain<\/A>

\nComic Strip Review<\/B>
\n The Blair Witch Project<\/I><\/A>

\n Reel Sounds<\/B>
\n Alternative 3<\/I><\/A>

\nShort Cuts<\/b>
\nLondon Short Film Festival Preview<\/A>

\nAlter Ego<\/b>
\nTom Benn<\/A>

\nFilm Jukebox<\/b>
\nBarry Adamson<\/A>

\nPodcast<\/b>
\nCult Animation<\/A>
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\tFake Documentaries: Political satire, media manipulation, horror trickery<\/B><\/p>\n

We start off the year with the real truths behind fake documentaries to mark the Blu-ray release of Peter Watkins’s incendiary Punishment Park<\/I><\/A>. We also have articles on the Joaquin Phoenix hoax I’m Still Here<\/I><\/A>, Danish political satire AFR<\/I><\/A>, the infamous BBC live ghost-hunting show simulation Ghostwatch<\/I><\/A>, Kôji Shiraishi’s pseudo-documentary on supernatural phenomena The Curse<\/I><\/A>, and a comic strip on The Blair Witch Project<\/I><\/A>, plus Norwegian monster mockumentary Troll Hunter<\/I><\/A> is out on DVD. Our Reel Sounds column is on Brian Eno’s soundtrack for SF hoax Alternative 3<\/I><\/A>.<\/p>\n

At the cinema, we review Jean Vigo’s poetic gem L’atalante<\/I><\/A>, Steve McQueen’s much anticipated study of sex addiction Shame<\/I><\/A>, Tatsumi<\/I><\/A>, an animated film on the life and work of the eponymous manga artist, and financial thriller Margin Call<\/I><\/A>. <\/p>\n

In the DVDs we look at legendary road movie Two-Lane Blacktop<\/I><\/A> and we have an interview with director Monte Hellman<\/A> about his latest film, Road to Nowhere<\/I>.<\/p>\n

We also review Teuvo Tulio’s flamboyant melodrama Cross of Love<\/I><\/A>, and we have a feature on films in which everybody dies<\/A> and guitar-slinger Dan Sartain interviews George Hardy<\/A>, star of Troll 2<\/I>. In Short Cuts we preview the London Short Film Festival<\/A>. Musician Barry Adamson<\/A> of Magazine and the Bad Seeds fame picks his favourites in the Film Jukebox while writer Tom Benn<\/A> is Blade Runner<\/I>‘s Roy Batty in Alter Ego.<\/p>\n

PODCAST:<\/B><\/A>
\nCult Animation<\/A>: Alex Fitch talks to a pair of directors of innovative short animated films: Oscar-winner (2011 co-director Short Animated Film) Shaun Tan about the adaptation of his acclaimed picture book The Lost Thing<\/I> and web animator Jonti Picking about his cult animated series Weebl and Bob<\/I> as well as his adverts for Cadbury’s Creme Eggs (is it that time of year already?) and Anchor Butter.<\/p>\n

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