Fraud

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Fleischer-Camp, Dean, ‡e director, ‡e producer

Grasshopper Film (Firm), publisher, film distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American Dream--Drama.

American Dream.

Middle class families--United States--Drama.

Middle class families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource 53 min.)

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film 2016

Summary:

Assembled from over 100 hours of home movies shot by an unknown man of his family over a period of seven years and uploaded to YouTube, Fraud is ... a found footage thriller ... that reveals one family's struggle for the American Dream and the nature of truth in the Internet age. While on YouTube one day, filmmaker Dean Fleischer-Camp came upon a trove of home videos documenting the ubiquitous activities of an unknown American family: birthday parties, trips to the mall, resort vacations. In this material however, he discovers a sensational story worthy of a pulp crime novel. Drowning in debt but driven by an insatiable hunger for material wealth and instant gratification (the new iPhone!), a middle-class family concocts a plot to maintain their unsustainable lifestyle, even if it means embarking on a desperate cross-country crime spree. Employing extraordinary cinematic sleight of hand, from subtle visual juxtapositions, minute re-framings and the implied authority of date stamps, among a multitude of other techniques, Fleischer-Camp fashions a bold, of-the-moment vision of American society

Participant:

Sam Abell, Greg Gorman, Cig Harvey, Mark Klett, Abelardo Morell

Credits:

Director, Dean Fleischer-Camp ; producer, Riel Roch-Decter, Sebastien Pardo, Dean Fleischer-Camp

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen

OCLC:

1343067358

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license