The Moon Hoax also provided an outlet for the era's shifting sense of truth.
Instead, it focuses on the poignant contrast between experience and memory, and on the shifting sands of truth.
But then the function of stories and the shifting nature of truth are very much at the heart of A Few Man Fridays.
In the coming days and weeks, there will be more of this blame shifting, and, in truth, there is plenty of blame to go around.
This is an immensely subtle play about the shifting nature of truth, wittily set by Rachel Blues on a bank of sand.
There are some interesting nods at how history and myths are made and the shifting nature of truth, but Herring doesn't carry off the tonal changes necessary, and what could be fascinating increasingly seems like an odd beast that can't make up its mind whether it wants to be funny or serious, farcical or dramatic.
But I do think that open discussion about the differences in people's realities, the fleeting nature of accepted truths, the shifting imperfection of fact, makes for better, more artful, more honest nonfiction.
Nomadism holds that there are no foundational truths, only shifting and contingent models that are as temporally relative as the conditions among individuals, communities, and environments that produces them.
"Jacqueline (Argentine)" is, in the end, an investigation into the shifting nature of the truth, and into how filmmakers, like frauds, must seduce and deceive themselves into believing their own stories.
Beautifully written and quietly playful in its mixture of lies, truth and shifting, dreamlike perspectives, the unnamed narrator of A Sport and a Pastime chronicles, among other things, his short and intense friendship with a young American expat during an endless summer in France.
