> However, is the opposite also possible, nonfiction disguising itself
> as fiction?
Well, for starters there's Oliver Stone's superb documentary, JFK,
which many believe to be fiction.
(Joke.)
Galaxy Quest explores similar territory. If only the Blair Witch were
nonfiction.
Seriouser: there's a case to be made (I feel) for Winterbottom's Cock
and Bull Story to be a nonfiction film that passes itself off as
fiction; it is a film about its own making...
There is also the notion that snuff movies do not exist; i.e. these
nonfictional films are in fact fictional.
A many-worlds-theory of the universe could be constructed to argue
(playfully) that ALL films are documents of a super-reality that
consists not only of the actual spacetime, but all possible
spacetimes...
UFO footage (who knows?).
In the realm of printed text, the veiled autobiography no doubt
exists, wherein nonfictional events are made to seem fictional. When
it comes to film, however, even biopics or autobiographical films are
considered de facto to be fictional, which is curious (even if based
on a 'true story'). A novel written by a Washington insider called
Primary Colours can be seen as breaching the threshold between fact
and fiction, while a film version thereof is just fiction. Why is
this?
Curiously, I am writing this while watching Vertov's Kino Eye on
UBUWeb (sort of). That's somewhere between fiction and nonfiction,
too...
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