The Here and Now of True/False Film Fest
It takes a good deal of aesthetic refinement and theoretical interest in cinema as an art form to care about the documentary/fiction hybrids screening at the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri. They simply cannot be fully appreciated otherwise. But then again, maybe not. One event at True/False is structured like a game show, and it still engages with the audiovisual discernment that the rest of the festival is trying to develop. Gimme Truth!, hosted by Brian Babylon, screened a series of short films so that three judges — and the audience — could guess whether they are authentic...
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