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
“Money is the greatest story ever told” – Yuval Noah Harari
? 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.
"Money is the greatest story ever told" is a concept popularized by historian Yuval Noah Harari
CURRENTLY IN POST-PRODUCTION
PODCAST : Darcy tells the story.
PODCAST : Story read by Ai voice.
CONPLEX is part two of the PLEX TRILOGY
STILL FRAMES FROM THE INDIA SHOOT
Featuring : Rohit Dandwani, Abhay Mishr, Nathan Kaye, Skye Lazure, Shreyan Saraswat, Samir Kudtaka.
Thanks : Carlos Faraldo, Francis Fernandos, Marco Gewinne, Dhanya Pilo, Hugo Farrant.
