This two-channel installation explores the fluidity of truth and fiction in online spaces through the lens of the ever-expanding Slenderman
mythos. Offered as a companion to the documentary A Self-Induced
Hallucination, Slenderman is Real // Slenderman is Fake presents a sometimes funny, sometimes charming and sometimes disturbing visual representation of how modern folklore develops online.
Also in this combined programme
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>be me
What stories do anonymous internet users share on internet forums? Come to >be me, where the special selection of ‘greentexts’ will inspire yo -
#MEMEPROPAGANDA Goes to Rotterdam
This interactive exhibition looks at the growing role of memes in digital society, focusing on meme characters. -
Octocat Story
In 2008, RANDYPETERS1, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago uploaded a hand-drawn animated video Octocat Adventures, about a red cat head with eight legs looking for… -
Meme-rIFFR
Eric Allen Hatch is a festival programmer and film critic who believes that making and appreciating memes can broaden knowledge and taste and so facilitate… -
Get Your Views; Is This Meme Art?
Combining a digital art series with video art, the work humorously questions the power of consumerism in the post-internet age. The videos explore the current… -
Meme Rewind 2018
Remember Trumpet Boy? Rewind of the best memes in 2018, with an explanation by 15-year-old meme expert Tobias Kers.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
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