Way of the Con-Artist, a true crime meta-story from Goa, India

 

For travellers, artists, adventure seekers and true-crime enthusiasts.

While filming Elephants in India, white Western filmmaker gets entangled in an effective 10-day hostage with Confidence Artists – converts the experience into a movie, with meta-twists.

Feature length tragicomic docudrama exposing the techniques and psychology of Con-artists through dramatisation of the core story interwoven with the filmmaker’s narrative of how in making the film he himself felt like a con-artist – promising a world-class film but struggling in Goa with tropical conditions and a crew of one – disillusionment, abandonment and critical equipment failure among the endless challenges faced by low-budget filmmakers.

 

 

Can he deliver the high quality film that was proposed ?

Is he himself becoming a con-artist ?

 

 

“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud” – Jean-Luc Godard

 

 

? Who do you trust ¿

 

 

Feature-length documentary drama featuring a ‘meta’ framework, employing voice narration, subtitles and multi-mode animations over live action and ai video.

 

STATUS : CURRENTLY IN POST-PRODUCTION

for first draft edit completion February 2025

PODCAST : Darcy tells the story.

PODCAST : Story read by Ai voice.

One-page Executive Summary on request  |  ~9000 word story PDF with photographs

 

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CONPLEX is part two of the PLEX TRILOGY

 

 

STILL FRAMES FROM THE DOCUMENTARY SHOOTS

Michael Stevenson (film producer), Michael Serwa (personal coach), Mark Button (prof. Counter Fraud Studies), anon. (filmmaker)