Godville

Berlin-based artist Omer Fast avails himself of the conventions of documentary film while undermining its pretense of factualness. Godville features interviews Fast conducted with resident-actors in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Living and working in a town preserved as an 18th-century living museum, the film’s subjects seem to have internalized their role-playing. Godville demonstrates how fictions and simulations inform contemporary notions of history and erode the stability of truth.