Mockumentalism

[Nancy Condee]

Both films--Fedorchenko's_First on the Moon_ and Manskii's _Private
Chronicles_, which Seth mentions below--are real gems.  See Oleg Kovalov's
review at http://www.kinokultura.com/2006/11r-firstmoon1.shtml and Sasha
Prokhorov's review at http://www.kinokultura.com/2006/11r-firstmoon2.shtml 


Prof. N. Condee
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
CL 1417
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-624-5906

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Alex Spektor wrote:

> was the long letter on mocumentary written in the genre of mocumentary?

Alex, are you trying to start a "faux-poster thread"?

On a (marginally) less frivolous note: Nancy's recommendation of 
Fedorchenko's _First on the Moon_ reminded me of one of my favorite Russian 
films, Vitalii Manskii's _Private Chronicles: A Monologue_ (Chastnye 
khroniki. Monolog, 1999).  It's the converse of a mockumentary: rather than 
shooting a fiction film and presenting it as a documentary, Manskii 
solicited and collected "documentary" footage (namely, the old home movies 
of dozens of Russian families) and edited it together as the life story of a

fictional character.  The hilarious script is by Igor' Iarkevich, and the 
home movies themselves give irresistible glimpses into daily life in the 
USSR from the 60s to the 80s.

Seth
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