Dominic Gagnon is an inventor, director, and performer. This Monday, The Docyard Series presents the artist with his remarkable film Hoax_Canular, the third of a trilogy of films in which YouTube videos are lined up into an inventory of voices about Doomsday. By way of perspective, his first two ‘documentaries,’ Pieces and Love All to Hell and RIP in Pieces America, were compiled from clips of so-called “preppers” or people preparing for the coming apocalypse. The first film was made up entirely of posts by women, the second of posts by men. These were clips by conspiracy theorists, fringe conservatives, paranoiacs, and survivalists who talked about strange machines, weapon arsenals, about stockpiling food, of FEMA concentration camps and, of course, the “New World Order.” In Hoax_Canular, Gagnon’s latest thematic accumulation of YouTube clips, all . . . Continue Reading |