Fake Documentaries

Political satire, media manipulation, horror trickery

Peter Watkins’s Punishment Park: Faux doc, real radicals, genuine protest
AFR: A satire of Danish politics
Hollywood hoax: I’m Still Here
The Curse: Kôji Shiraishi's pseudo-documentary on supernatural phenomena
Troll Hunter: Monster mockumentary from Norway
Exit through the Gift Shop: In which the elusive Banksy reveals himself – or not
London in the Raw + Primitive London: Exploiting the Swinging myth
A Man Vanishes: Shôhei Imamura’s playful pseudo-documentary about a woman looking for her missing fiancé
Cannibal Holocaust: The savages are not the ones in front of the camera
The Last Exorcism: Faking it until it’s real

Ghostwatch: An investigative report on a haunted house presented live on the BBC

Punishment Park: Virginie Sélavy talks to William Fowler, archive curator at the BFI National Archive, about Peter Watkins's uncompromising pseudo-documentary on I'M READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP, Friday 20 January, 5-5:30pm, Resonance 104.4 FM

Ruggero Deodato on Cannibal Holocaust: “I’m annoyed that there is a reaction to violence in my films but no reaction to the terrifying violence happening out there every day. Why do people only wake up when they see a piece of fiction?”

Filming The Last Exorcism: Alex Fitch interviews producer Eli Roth and director Daniel Stamm about their horror mockumentary, which deals with possession, cattle mutilation and murder in a small rural community.