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A couple (and their young child) live a life beyond their means, putting them in a desperate spot. What will they do and what is the aftermath?

"Fraud" is one of those films that makes me uncomfortable. Not because the material in the film is controversial, but because I tend to respect the old saying about only speaking nicely or keeping your mouth shut. And, unfortunately, this just does not give me much to work with if I want to be strictly nice.

One might say it is clever, innovative, or at the very least "experimental" that the film is shot on a home video recorder, and most scenes are really only a few seconds long. So the plot unravels through partial vignettes, leaving the viewer plenty of room to make their own assumptions about the characters. This might be seen as a clever device, perhaps, but it's a hard sell.

Any movie made with a home video recorder is hard to watch. Only on rare occasions to "found footage" and similar styles really work. This one works if we ignore the fact that the dad seems to be always filming… always… no matter how big or small an event is. And he continues to film while questionable activity is going on, making him either really stupid or unbelievably addicted to his camera.

Simply put, there is not much to see here. It has no humor, it has no scary bits. There is a modicum of suspense, maybe. If this were an actual documentary, it may have some sort of value in that regard, but it is quite obviously not a real documentary and hopefully does not pretend to be. Allegedly the director had to tell an audience that the family in the film had not committed any real crimes… but what gullible audience would have believed they did?

Right now, the film is making the festival rounds, and can be seen March 25 at the Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF). This is not the must-see film of the festival, and it seems unlikely that a distributor will jump at the chance to buy it up. (And, frankly, with all the music clips in the background, it may not even be able to be released legally.)

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I feel like I was mislead to see this film. It is promoted as being a new style of documentary film, but in reality, it is a fictional story made by editing and distorting a family's home movies.

There's nothing clever about lying and misleading the audience and making it sound like you are presenting a true story documentary film only to find out that after you've watched the film you were lied to. If the director wasn't there to tell you about some of the fictional elements you might think you watched a true story.

I heard the director speak at a film festival and the first thing he said is "I just want to say that the family did not commit any crimes and we just made it look like they did".

Basically, the director took a bunch of scenes from home movies. Put them out of order and distorted things out of context, put fake time stamps on the scenes to make it appear chronological. The time stamps have nothing to do with actual dates of when the film clips were made. The fake time stamps are merely there to help fake the fabricated fictional story that did not occur.

There were also fabricated fictional elements, and fictional scenes created to help tell the fictional story. For example there is fake news story shown in the film. Also video clips were added that had nothing to do with the family. For example the director leads you to believe you are seeing the family's house burning down. The family lives in the United States. The house on fire is a film clip the director found of a Russian house on fire and the house has nothing to do with the family.

The real fraud is that this movies is not a documentary film even though it described as being a documentary film.

Most people find it boring to watch home movies of people you don't know. Perhaps to convince people to watch this movie, the director had to make up some fake fraud story and mislead people to believe it is a documentary film.

This tactic isn't anything new or revolutionary. PT Barnum used to do that in circus side shows. Blair Witch project also created hype about a fiction found footage documentary. Reality Television shows do the same thing and distort things to create drama in shows that they claim are reality shows.

We don't need false reality "documentaries". Film makers who mislead their audiences trying to get them to watch films that are not what they promoted are not respecting the time or interests of the audience.

It would be like telling people they are going to see a romance movie and then giving them a gory slasher movie. People expect to see what they are lead to believe they are going to see and false advertising is not a good way to attract an audience. I wish I hadn't wasted my time watching this film. I was at a film festival and I missed seeing a good film because this film claimed to be a new form of documentary film making. It is not a documentary. It is fiction.

It is apparent Dean Fleischer-Camp never imagined in his wildest dreams what his tiny, innocuous art film would connect him to for all eternity.

The father in the film Gary Arnold is on a mission.

He has an expanding digital footprint from his ongoing paranormal investigations.

Yes - he's an avid "ghost hunter", BUT quite unlike most in this genre - Gary's amassed hard data & enlisted some serious scientific sponsors to catapult his outrageous evidence directly into the consciousness of the American Heartland.

There's also a sensational aspect to his experience that will likely ignite the public's imagination: Gary's winning some righteous cash using EVP messages collected from the ether...

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With his network of prestigious & credentialed specialists and a Nobel prize nominee - Gary's poised to soon make a historic real life Disclosure of epic proportions that will reverberate globally:

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Gary is confident he has the ironclad, incontrovertible forensic data to convincingly show it to all he world.

Undoubtedly, one cannot over-estimate how this simple self-evident confirmation will cause a cascade of hemispheric changes in the intrinsic nature of our perception as to the true order of things in the Cosmos.

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Saw this film in London and the power of split-second editing is amazing. I may seem a bit reserved with my British characterizations, but the flavor of the family portrayed in the movie is uniquely American. This plot wouldn't seem as plausible with an English family. Nevertheless, I recommend people give Fraud a good watch whenever it goes to VOD.

Delightfully disturbing and unnervingly intriguing, Dean Fleischer-Camp's FRAUD is constructed from a family's real home movies that are stitched together into a completely fictional narrative. Finding the "seams" that comprise this patchwork of videos is part of the cinematic fun and quite the challenging puzzle to solve.

As the patriarch of the actual family depicted in Dean Fleischer-Camp's subterranean séance, I sincerely hope everyone out of sheer curiosity gives FRAUD a good "look-see" to experience the cinematic magic...

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

FRAUD is a timely and relevant film if one takes a moment to consider all the current commotion over "fake news", politics and American consumerism run amok.

Dean Fleischer-Camp's direction and Jonathon Rippon's impressive editing create quite an artistic feat of pure magic.

After watching the movie, I did a bit of research to find the family's actual YouTube channel AND it sure doesn't disappoint in the sheer number of home movies and adventures they have posted online.

If one is even remotely curious to see how different fact is from fiction, then a quick finger's waltz atop the keyboard will let you explore the REAL family who inspired the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0pr_wuOvA

Sometimes, a film arrives at just the right moment to act as a mirror and effectively reflect our turbulent zeitgeist of upheaval. FRAUD is that film.

Dean Fleischer-Camp's masterpiece of media manipulation disturbs the audience with its simple artifice, its complete banality, and leaves a lingering & uncomfortable aftertaste. Preconceptions dissolve and new connections are created. This is the realm of authentic artistic talent.

These are certainly challenging times. "Fake News" or not - we feel unsure of how to distinguish what is real form what is fiction. A new paradigm is taking hold of our collective consciousness.

We are increasingly insecure. This vertigo summons that classic TV series the X-Files' catchphrase - "Trust No One".

Ironically, the found footage / crime thriller - FRAUD - succeeds by culling scenes from over 100 hours of an unnamed American family's innocuous home movies that are rearranged and tweaked in such a way as to make them ONLY appear to be criminals.

This illusion works on so many levels & is pure Hollywood magic to behold. Its simplicity is the pure genius of it. We really want to believe what we see despite the film's title declaring that the contrary is actually the truth. We are willing participants in the CON.

• SO - To help the dedicated movie enthusiast divine what is counterfeit from what is genuine and get a more balanced appreciation of "artistic license", I have made it easy for one to take a virtual trip to the REAL American Family's no-frills & basic thrills YouTube channel via the link below:

!!! Compare / Contrast /ENJOY !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0pr_wuOvA

Amazing how prescient this film was in anticipating our current post-truth era.

With AI ascendant, all authenticity in film gets waylaid by a constellation of algorithms.

*Interesting aside: I researched the star behind Dean's film: the enigmatic father behind the camerawork.

In the aftermath of Dean's film, Gary's life has taken quite an epic turn.

He's networking with world-renowned scientists, audio forensic engineers, a Nobel prize nominee & intelligence officials of several 3-letter agencies to solve one of the greatest puzzles of all-time:

The EVP Mystery.

So, are these bizarre whispers aliens or ghosts?

It is a confounding riddle that certainly merits further investigation.

One of Life's Great Questions seems about to be answered: Are We Alone in the Cosmos???

Gary's also repeatedly winning BIG jackpot$ using EVP messages to pick lottery #s.

This sensational aspect invites the curious to look closely at the man portrayed in the film.

Gary's trailblazing research is getting recognized across the globe:

Just google: Medium WeAreNotAlone Gary.

A nausea-inducing roller coaster ride of whiplash edits presaging our Trump era of maniacal fictions...

Worth watching just to see the HOT - HOT - HOT Mama who stars in this film.

There's something intrinsically creepy about this odd little film.

It exudes a spookiness like one is being watched while I'm watching it.

What the words are I really can't describe it.

I think the shaky footage & the surgical edits create a sense of visceral nausea; there is also a subliminal component that evokes tension & a looming sense of dread.

It is ineffable & difficult to express, but I feel there's much more to this than the mere repurposing & rendering of a family's home movies.

There's more than meets the eye.

Call it paranoia, but I believe it definitely conjures & exudes a certain zeitgeist.