Unearthed
This column investigates found footage and other forms of unstable evidence in cinema.
By Nicholas Russell
| July 30, 2024
The narrative framing echoes that of Lake Mungo and other mockumentaries, the events having already taken place, the yarn unspooled by an unseen director and editor, with the found footage elements appearing less as real-time documentation than forensic evidence.
By Nicholas Russell
| October 31, 2023
It seems a mistake to retroactively graft the now-vaunted legacy of The Blair Witch Project onto the final product . . . the believability of fictionalized found footage has never only had to do with the question of what an audience knows going in.