F like fake

“F as in the word“ fake “” ( English F for Fake ) or “True and False” ( fr. Vérités et mensonges ) is a pseudo-documentary film by Orson Welles (1974), his last finished work.

The film essay , which resembles some of Chris Marker's tapes in form, is a highly rhythmic cut of documentary and fabricated video material that is interspersed with game fragments with the participation of Wells and his girlfriend Oia Kodar . The main theme - the complex dialectic of the true and the false in art - is illustrated by the examples of the extraordinary fate of falsifiers Elmira de Hori and Clifford Irving . In the second half of the film, Wells mystifies the audience with a story about how Oia Kodar allegedly posed for Picasso .

The bulk of the material filmed in France. Wells spent almost a year on a dynamic, ultra-fast installation . A working copy of the 9-minute trailer for the film, which Wells edited in 1976 for American viewers, has also been preserved.