Tag Archives: Mockumentary

Ruggero Deodato, Cannibal Holocaust

Deodato’s much-maligned Cannibal Holocaust is in many ways the ultimate exploitation film, and yet also much more. While the acting is at times rather stilted, and the violence seems gratuitous like most other exploitation films, this film rather enacts the desire of the spectator to see the unseen.
Cannibal Holocaust thus enacts and stages itself - [...]

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Gus Van Sant, Elephant

A film which takes its cue from the various high school shootings in the US, but unlike documentaries like Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine there is no direct indictment of anyone or anything other than the culture in general. The film has no intentions of answering any questions or investigating what went wrong in the [...]

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