F for Fake
One of Orson Welles’s most overtly playful films, F for Fake is a portrait of the film director as prestidigitator; the everyday techniques of movie making—particularly editing—are presented as the most powerful of magic tricks. Ostensibly a documentary about the art forger Elmyr de Hory, in Welles’s hands, it’s so much more, a multi-layered performance piece put on by the greatest of movie magicians.
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About David Zeiger
Guggenheim Fellow David Zeiger has been making documentary films and series for 20 years, starting with The Band, a film about his son’s junior year in high school, broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V. in 1997. His short documentary, Funny Old Guys, was broadcast in 2002 by HBO. His 2006 film, Sir! No Sir!, ran theatrically in 65 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada and was broadcast in 200 countries worldwide. It won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival (Audience Award) and Hamptons Film Festival, and Seeds of War Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival. In 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2012 completed his first narrative feature, Sweet Old World.