The Blind Spot of Perception is a mockumentary which, while clearly inspired by earlier works, finds its own unique voice, bringing its message up to date with the times we live in and paying homage to film and television history.
The entertaining mockumentary Das Fest des Huhnes is a practically unique film, much more topical and urgent than it may initially seem. A work that even many years after it was made seems so dramatically necessary.
In Sparschwein, Christoph Schwarz opted for a decidedly unusual directorial approach, resulting in a hybrid work, halfway between documentary and fiction film. And so we see how an initial challenge slowly becomes a real mission. At the Diagonale 2024.
Die Revolution frisst ihre Kinder tells us an important chapter in the history of Burkina Faso in the unusual form of the mockumentary, for a highly complex and layered work in which art and politics are constantly intertwined, inevitably merging with each other, without leaving the audience time to realise where the mise-en-scene ends and reality begins.