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Huchon posed as his alter-ego Perrottin on social media, building a following of more than 500 people before publishing the bogus documentary.
But that bogus documentary look -- of jittery handheld cameras meant to give the footage a "You Are There" feeling, even when nothing is going on -- is distracting (though not a dealbreaker for me).
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The bogus film was the brainchild of documentary-maker Thomas Huchon and Antoine Robin, co-founder of the Paris-based video journalism site Spicee.
What is it about low-tech video that lends it a frisson of documentary truth, so that — however bogus it may be — your impulse is to trust it?
We wait years for a televisual demonisation of our beliefs – and then get two in a week! Louis Theroux's documentary on Jewish settlers and Peter Kosminsky's drama The Promise shared a similar bogus premise – that Zionism would be revealed in all its uniquely vile calumny.
Another high point is Vikram Gandhi's "Borat -like documentary "Kumar?' a douBorat -likesatire in which the filmmaker poses as an Indocumentaryho popularizes a bogus new yoga technique system in Arizona and attracts ardent disciples to whom he becomes more attached than he expected.
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BOGUS: counterfeit, spurious, sham.
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