Miles Rufelds. A Hall of Mirrors

In an era when every visual and informational production is put under the microscope of truth, conspiracists and whistleblowers share the same platforms. In this context, what role does the artist play in the quest, accumulation and dissemination of facts? Drawing on film noir tropes while deploying visual essayism as an investigatory mode, Miles Rufelds reconciles authenticatory images with deceptive illusions around a legendary figure of experimental film. In "It's Not Brakhage", a parafictional film, an investigator consumed by doubt plunges into the archives of a shadowy foundation tied to the DuPont industrial dynasty.