Fraud

2016

52 min.

Documentary

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Filmmaker Dean Fleischer-Camp re-edits a home video to paint a new portrait of a family.

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Seductively surreal and profoundly plausible in this brave new era of Trump. https://www.cecildaily.com/fraud-trailer/youtube_d9f771f6-4a9e-5c6a-bdfb-cc6ba677307d.html

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Worth it -- just to see the HOT - HOT- HOT mom who stars in the film !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Delightfully disturbing because Fraud is constructed from a family's real home movies that are stitched together into a completely fictional narrative. Finding those "seams" that stitch this patchwork of videos together is part of the cinematic fun and quite a challenging puzzle to solve.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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As the patriarch of the actual family depicted in this artsy subterranean sÃ (C)ance, I sincerely hope everyone out of sheer cinematic curiosity gives Dean Fleischer-Campâ(TM)s âFraudâ? a good âlook-seeâ? to experience the âmagicâ? â¦ & IF one wishes to glimpse the REAL family behind the haunting mystique of this film, one is never more than a quick fingerâ(TM)s waltz away from our humble YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0pr_wuOvA https://www.cecildaily.com/fraud-trailer/youtube_d9f771f6-4a9e-5c6a-bdfb-cc6ba677307d.html

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Dean Fleischer-Camp's film Fraud is quite unlike anything else I've witnessed this year. 52 minutes of whiplash editing married to a completely fictional narrative makes Fraud one helluva crazy ride!!!!!!!!!!!!! The actual Family's YouTube archive contains a GARGANTUAN stash of home movies covering just about every aspect of modern day American life. Every day it appears they are on trip to a new restaurant, the mall, a beach, a ski trip or hike. Given the vast volume of the Family's video collection, I imagine several sequels are pending. For those of you who can't just get enough "Reality TV" and want something more to hold you over - Here is a portal into the Family's genuine adventures: One can "binge watch" their YouTube channel for literally weeks and come away with a greater appreciation of that quest for good life and the so-called "American Dream". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0pr_wuOvA

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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david f

This compilation of home movies taken from the internet and stitched into a drama is fascinating and a great conversation starter.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Ben Nicholson

Sight & Sound

Its enigmatic quality... makes it all the more alluring.

Aug 15, 2018

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John DeFore

Hollywood Reporter

One suspects most viewers will respond with a shrug, if they sit through it at all.

Jan 19, 2017

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Peter Keough

Boston Globe

He seems to be attempting two paradoxical goals: a documentary about consumerism that is also a mock-documentary demonstrating that documentaries are fiction. It works superbly on both levels, but to what purpose?

Jan 19, 2017

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Dominic Griffin

Baltimore Sun

At 52-minutes, it's not long enough to feel particularly substantive, and seeing it on the big screen can be a little disorienting, but Fraud possesses a hypnotic pull that's hard to deny.

Rated: 7.5/10

Jul 16, 2019

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg

ScreenAnarchy

While not a documentary in the strictest sense, it is a documentary of how we live our lives both as consumers and stars of our own lives that might end up on the internet for all to consume.

Aug 14, 2018

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Matt Patches

Thrillist

One of the spookiest movies of the YouTube era. Michael Haneke would be proud.

Apr 11, 2017

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Dean Fleischer-Camp re-edits a home video to paint a new portrait of a family.

Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp
Production Co: Memory
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 17, 2018