Círculo Roto presents The Fiction of Fiction is Reality, a reflection on our collective impulse to record and document the world. Why do we make images? And how do we discern which ‘truths’ need to be immortalised? How do we choose from an ever growing range of tools?

Once, photography and documentary were appreciated as tools capable of capturing reality with a certain objectivity. Today, in an era where image-making is constant and automated, the act of documenting reality no longer guarantees access to truth. Images circulate detached from their sources, archived endlessly yet stripped of context.

Círculo Roto is a quarterly community film screening series dedicated to independent filmmaking. In this series, they invite films that acknowledge the limits of fact-hunting and draw on the potential of incompleteness and uncertainty. Moving images become a site for negotiating subjectivity and expression, where the personal is rendered durable and history can be questioned, stretched, and reassembled. Documentary is approached as a space in which contradictions can coexist, and form is used to generate dialogue between realities rather than to propose a singular story. Reality is reworked through a fiction of a fiction—one that can be more truthful than fact.

Program:

Introduction by Delfin Lev and Sebastian Vasquez Cipriani

Memoji Therapy Episode 1 by Jayson-James Sloan

Up close is not so beautiful by Yana Khazanovich

Shot Host by Aitan Ebrahimoff

FEUERWERK by Timothy George Kelly

Phone Call with Flo (Excerpt from The Devil Museum) by Jacob Dwyer

The Othered Scene by YEN Wang-Yun

A Ghost Covers One's Eyes by Brandon Chow

5 sounds at the end of the world by Nika Dundua

Katabasing by Philip Speakman