''Fraud'' is a 2016
conceptual documentary film directed by
Dean Fleischer Camp
Dean Fleischer Camp is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and film editor. He created the ''Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (short film series), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On'' short films with Jenny Slate, whom he was married ...
. The film is made up of re-edited homevideos uploaded to YouTube. It tells the fictional story of an average white American family of four obsessively shopping at
Big Box stores until their increasing mountain of debt leads them to go to extremes in order to wipe the slate clean and keep the money flowing.
Origins
In the late 2000s, around the time he was directing the short film, ''
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,'' Camp was digging through clips on the
user-generated content platform
YouTube when he stumbled across over 100 hours of home video footage documenting the life of an unknown American family and uploaded to the internet between 2008 and 2015. He was initially hesitant to turn it into a documentary because of the effort and time required to cut the footage down to feature length.
Release
The film world-premiered at
Hot Docs
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is the largest documentary festival in North America. The event takes place annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 27th edition of the festival took place online throughout May and June ...
in May 2016. The premiere was controversial, with arguments breaking out during post-screening Q&As between the director and members of the audience as well as amongst the audience members themselves. The film has been selected to screen at BAMcinemaFest at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant-garde performance. It presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in ...
in New York and the
Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF) in the United Kingdom.
References
External links
''Fraud'' Official Website
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American documentary films
American avant-garde and experimental films
Collage film
Films shot from the first-person perspective
2010s avant-garde and experimental films
2010s American films
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