![]() In truth, the filmmaker’s latest is less an argument than a question, one more interesting than the simulation hypothesis: What makes people think that reality is fake? I wonder, then, how many will watch Ascher’s new film, A Glitch in the Matrix, and believe (for better or worse) that it is telling us that we all live in a simulated reality. Room 237 (2012), a feature-length examination of fan theories and academic investigations of The Shining, presented its subjects’ ideas with so little overt editorializing that some viewers, including Stephen King himself, thought it was uncritically endorsing their (frequently off-the-wall) interpretations. ![]() How niche and specific? His 2010 short The S From Hell is about people who were all terrified by a movie studio logo in the ’60s. He finds niche, often highly specific phenomena and treats them to serious and in-depth scrutiny. ![]() Few filmmakers lean into this subjectivity as openly and enthusiastically as Rodney Ascher. Despite its basis in reality and heavy association with journalism, documentary is an incredibly subjective form. ![]()
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