STRANGE TRUTHS: A DOCUMENTARY BINGE-FEST

Elsie's Film House presents... STRANGE TRUTHS: A DOCUMENTARY BINGE-FEST

Who needs fiction when real life is this fascinating?

Join us on the final day of screenings at Elsie's Film House for an unforgettable afternoon of documentary storytelling. Delving into the bizarre, the brave, the captivating and complicated true stories of the human experience.

Book to see individual films via each link below or buy a Binge-Fest ticket to see all 4 films for $40

12.15pm - THE THIN BLUE LINE

2.30pm - MAN ON WIRE

4.30pm - THE WOLFPACK

6.30pm - SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE

THE THIN BLUE LINE dir. Errol Morris (1988) US | PG | 103 mins

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

This pivotal true crime film from master documentarian Errol Morris is both hilarious and deeply serious, and changed the face of documentaries forever.

MAN ON WIRE dir. James Marsh (2008) US/UK | PG-13 | 93 mins

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.

THE WOLFPACK dir. Crystal Moselle (2015) US | M | 89 mins

Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed ‘The Wolfpack’, the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate home-made props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.

SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE dir. Matthew Bate (2011) AUS/US | MA15+ | 90 mins

In 1987, Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey recorded the nightly squabbles of their over-the-top neighbors, homophobic Raymond Huffman and proudly gay Peter Haskett, and the chronicle of the pair's bizarre existence soon took on a life of its own. This darkly funny documentary checks in with former punks Eddie and Mitch, who detail their late-'80s Lower Haight surroundings, and surveys the tapes' influence on an array of underground artists.