The Amazing, Performing Film: Some Propositions
The Amazing, Performing Film: Some Propositions

Summary/Abstract: F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1974): at the start, the film presents a declaration – spoken and shown – to the effect that, although it is wholly concerned with tricks and tricksters, for the next sixty minutes only the truth will be told and presented. The film eventually winds around to a particularly outlandish story involving Pablo Picasso and his dealings with a mysterious model (Oja Kodar). Welles subsequently reappears on screen to ask whether we are still believing him and his film. If so, he informs us, we should note that the sixty minutes ended seventeen minutes previously, and that he has been lying his head off ever since.

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