Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued
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Directed by Julian Castronovo | 77 mins | 2025
In this irreverent, deliciously vertiginous docufiction caper—the beguiling, Rotterdam and Doc Fortnight-selected debut of Julian Castronovo—the writer-director plays a version of himself who becomes entangled in an "F for Fake"-indebted mystery. On the trail of a missing art forger whom he suspects formerly inhabited his New York apartment, Julian himself vanishes. Looking to his possessions and Photo Booth recordings for clues, the film’s dispassionate narrator in turn goes in search of Julian.
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