The Central Authority
When a pandemic collapses world governments, citizens get supplies by providing content for a global video channel, where you either go viral or die.
One Actor, one film, 25 characters.
This experimental film plays like the one man stage shows done by many great comics. Alan Putts has died but who is he? His friends, family, and those who knew him get together to tell his life story from beginning to end. Some have nice things to say some do not. We learn that he was a war hero, factory worker, radio DJ, had a dog name Poo, was addicted to sugar packets, and could whistle out of his... well you'll find out.
When a pandemic collapses world governments, citizens get supplies by providing content for a global video channel, where you either go viral or die.
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
Dazzling and raucous, Ryan Trecartin's first feature-length video takes cues from chat rooms, social networking web sites, YouTube, John Waters, and Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and then turns them upside down and inside out to create an entirely singular video genre. In I-BE AREA, Trecartin intertwines the stories of an incredible ensemble cast to follow a day in the life of I-BE II, the rebellious clone of I-BE.
"Hitler's Folly" explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler's art career had been more successful and instead of becoming an evil dictator, he was inspired to become an animator like Walt Disney.
Kawashima senses a strange presence inside his apartment, and sets up security cameras in an attempt to find out what that is. Then the doorbell rings, and a succession of other bizarre phenomena send him into a state of panic.
A documentary on the life and career of Norwich's finest broadcaster, Alan Partridge. In the programme, Alan is asked tough questions about his divorce, Toblerone addiction and his autobiography 'Bouncing Back' by formidable interviewer Ray Woollard.
To prove they're still 'with it' and 'urban,' Everything is Terrible! has taken the entire history of co-opted cool, and bashed it together into one continuous mix that will not only please your earballs, but also your eyelobes. Can we B real 4 a second? Everyone knows rap music is best when performed by white people promoting reasonably-priced hammed-burgers. So doesn't it make sense to witness and celebrate the REAL birth of hip-hop? You know, the one involving child actors rappin' 'bout stamps, and claymation doughboys spittin' rhymes 'bout crescent rolls! And you'd never in a billion years think old ladies can rap- BUT THEY TOTALLY CAN! After EIT! Does The Hip-Hop!, you’ll never need to listen to music again! For various reasons! ...And it don’t stop! Word!
So, what’s the deal with Comic Relief Zero!? Sit down and shut up, so we can tell you! But seriously folks, sit down and shut up, because those dumb-faced, giggle-grabbin’ goof-troupers at Everything Is Terrible! are dishing out a stand-up comedy special! This special is the opposite of special; featuring today’s hottest ventriloquists, racists, prop comics, sexists, impersonators, homophobes, and talk show hosts in their hate-filled prime! Are you oppressed and underrepresented in society? Well then, watch out! Let’s pull back the banana peel and take a head-first descent into the brick wall of our own mind! Take my life... please!
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
A comedy/horror mockumentary that chronicles the unravelling of a production team who are attempting to produce the ultimate reality TV show pilot "Extremely Haunted Hoarders". The team consists of a Professional Organizer, a Psychologist, two ghost hunters, and a crew of junk removers. They arrive in Rockford, Ohio, the hoarder capital of America. There they meet Murph Evans, a legendary hoarder with three crammed and condemned mansions. In their efforts to de-clutter the properties and reform Murph's habit, the intervention unearths a literal house of horrors.
With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
It is a typical day in the life of actor Kazuki Shimizu when a gun is found inside his bag, leading to all sorts of trouble for him. A Day of One Hero is a direct-to-video film starring Kazuki Shimizu as himself in a mockumentary of his acting career as Don "Doc" Dogoier in the Super Sentai series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. The film also features cameo appearances by Tokusatsu veteran actors Yoshio Yamaguchi and Nao Nagasawa.
Preach Modern shows a documentary team following Damien, an eager and charming student, to document his way into priesthood as a young adult. It quickly becomes clear that Damien has no idea about celibacy and to make matters worse, he is very popular among his female classmates. Throughout the documentary, Damien and his mentor, Father Titus, work towards a trial service that young Damien will hold at Father Titus' local church. On their way to promote the trial service and Catholicism, Titus encounters memories of his past as a young priest, and Damien must confront his female classmates, who are helplessly drawn to his charms. Will Damien be able to resist accidental temptation or is he in for an unexpected shock?
A mockumentary profile of master Japanese watchmaker Takumi Oshiro, who is on the verge of completing one of his greatest masterpieces.
Edo, owner of the last cow left in Serravalle Langhe, involves the community in a plan to deal with the sudden disappearance of all the cattle.
What Doesn't Kill Us is a mockumentary about rehabilitated zombies facing the adversities of living in a time when they aren't yet treated equally to humans.
Mitsukuni Daisou, a popular comedian in Kansai, becomes a reporter. Suddenly, a mysterious unidentified creature is reflected in the camera while shooting a location for a food walk-in program.
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
This comedic retrospective mixes archival footage and scripted sketches as it revisits all the dread — and occasional delight — that 2021 had to offer.