Roger Hallas sent a query to the Visible Evidence listserv on 10/26/23, asking for fictional feature films with documentary filmmakers as protagonists. This list compiles the results of that query.

 

American Beauty (1999), Dir. Sam Mendes

Benny’s Video (1992), Dir. Michael Haneke

Best in Show (2000), Dir. Christopher Guest

Blair Witch Project (1999), Dir. Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez

Camera Buff (1979), Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cannibal Holocaust (1985), Ruggero Deodato

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Dir. Woody Allen

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), Dir. Michael Patrick Jann

Dumb Money (2023), Dir. Craig Gillespie

Eighth Grade (2018), Bo Burnham

Even the rain/Tambien La Lluvia (2010), Icíar Bollaín

Her (2014), Dir. Spike Jonze

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), Dir. John McNaughton

Hi Mom (1970), Dir. Brian De Palma

I Am A Sex Addict (2005), Dir. Caveh Zahedi

I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Any More (1994), Dir. Caveh Zahedi

In Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), Dir. Miranda July

In the Shadow of Women (2015), Dir. Philippe Garrel

Incident at Loch Ness (2004) The fiction/doc with a fabulous bonus with Herzog and Penn

Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978), Dir. Chantal Akerman

Lisbon Story (1994), Dir. Wim Wenders

Man Bites Dog (1992), Dirs. Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde

Man of Marble (1977), Dir. Andrezj Wajda

Medium Cool (1969), Dir. Haskell Wexler

Nightcrawler (2014), Dir. Dan Gilroy

Nope (2023), Dir. Jordan Peele

Real Life (1979), Dir. Albert Brooks

Rent (2005), Dir. Chris Columbus

Sex Lies and Videotape (1989), Dir. Steven Soderbergh

Storytelling (2001), Dir. Todd Solondz

Taxi (2015), Dir. Jafar Panahi

The Film with No Name (1988), Dir. Srdjan Karonovic

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Dir. Wes Anderson

The Passenger (1975), Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

The Watermelon Woman (1997), Dir. Cheryl Dunye

This is Spinal Tap (1984), Dir. Rob Reiner

Troll Hunter/Trolljegeren (2010), Dir. André Øverdal

Valu (The Wild Bull) (2008), Dir. Umesh Kulkarni

Waiting for Guffman (1996), Dir. Christopher Guest

While We’re Young  (2014), Dir. Noah Baumbach

 

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