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I came across this fantastic analysis by the New York Times about the capitol riot.
Pieced together from hundreds of videos shot by the rioters, in addition to surveillance footage, police radio recordings, etc, they reconstructed a documentary following specific protagonists throughout the events. All images and sounds including first person voice-overs, interviews, documentation were taken by the perpetrators themselves, but this video is made to look like a seamless documentary, with a narrator (conspicuously with an Irish accent to distance the creators I suppose from an American point of view). I think one could write a thesis on this as a found footage fake documentary no matter how true is all the footage and even the conclusions of the propos. That is, fake documentary in the sense of a found footage collage, but not fake news.

Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/us/jan-6-capitol-attack-takeaways.html?referringSource=articleShare <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/us/jan-6-capitol-attack-takeaways.html?referringSource=articleShare>


- Pip Chodorov
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